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Erick Omondi Odire

Geospatial Data, Environment & Natural Resource Scientist

Based in Nairobi, Kenya

About

I am a diligent Geospatial Data Analyst with experience in undertaking GIS and Remote Sensing tasks across a variety of national and international organizations working towards achieving Sustainable development goals (SDGs). My experience spans urban infrastructural development, natural resources management, and conservation planning and practice. I am highly diverse and extremely efficient.

Skills

Projects

Experience

2021-2021

GIS Research Assistant at World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya.

I collated spatial data for project sites including vegetation, terrain, land use/cover, and climate data in Google Earth Engine. I also conducted trends in tree cover change in Ranger project sites in Kenya to identify areas that needed more tree cover and understand drivers for change in tree cover.

2021-2021

GIS Consultant at Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Suisse (VSF) Samburu, Kenya

Building drought resilience in Samburu County (Kenya) through Sustainable Rangelands Management (DR-SRM) Project.

2020-2020

GIS Consultant at Ramani Geosystems Ltd, Nairobi, Kenya

2020-2020

GIS Field Technician at ESRI Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Kenya Petroleum Technical Assistance Project: Mapped petrol stations to establish a GIS infrastructural database for the Kenya Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) to enhance compliance, monitoring, and identifying market gaps in the Energy sector.

2018-2020

Geospatial Data Analyst at Ramani Geosystems Ltd, Nairobi, Kenya

Worked in the Production department of Ramani Geosystems and aided tasks in projects for various clients.

2017-2018

GIS Technician at Azimath Company Ltd

2023

GIS Consultant at Kenya Marine Mammal Research and Conservation

GIS Support for Kenya Marine Mammal Research and Conservation: •Developed an Operational Dashboard and Public Data Collection Forms for KMMN (Marine Mammal Citizen Science Platform). Operational Dashboard Link • Developed an Operational Dashboard for the Marine Mammal Stranding Network (Limited to Authorized Users). • Developed an Operational Dashboard for the Dolphin Program and other projects (e.g., the Acoustic Project and Large Whale Entanglement Project). • Designed Project Templates for Dolphin, Whale, Stranding, and Entanglement Programs. • Established an Assets Management Map. • Set up the CHC NAV 700H device for field work and monitoring, including data collection software.

2023 - Present

GIS Consultant at Sustain East Africa

Supporting the Kenya Wildlife Conservancy Association (KWCA) project “Status and Potential of Conservancies in Kenya: Guiding and prioritizing PFP investments in conservancies” by carrying out the following tasks: • Supporting spatial data analysis and cleaning for conservancy and tourism data using R and QGIS. • Developing static and web maps of conservancies to be used in reports and publications. • Performing various Remote Sensing analysis using Google Earth Engine to develop conservancies’ impact reports. • Carrying out a literature review of the current baseline of conservancies.

Education

2022-2023

M.Sc. Environment and Natural Resources Management at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

Thesis: Assessing mangrove forest dynamics and their drivers, a case study of Mombasa, Tana River, and Lamu counties, Kenya. https://makir.mak.ac.ug/handle/10570/14425 Other Project: Assessing the effect of forest zonation on tree species diversity and structure in Mabira forest, Uganda.

2012-2016

B.A Geography at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya.