Cameron White: GIS Analyst I
Cameron is a born and raised San Diegan who surprisingly hardly thought about water provisioning or management in arid Southern California until a few choice experiences, professors, and books in his mid-20s. He has made it a hobby to buy, and sometimes read, environmental history books concerning water, dams, and communities of the Western United States to better understand how our current water policies and infrastructure began.
Ever since a course in Environmental Geography at the local community college that precipitated an entirely different life path, he has been fascinated with the environmental applications of GIS. His educational and professional pursuits led him to apply GIS to transportation, forestry, fire, and now water. Graduate research into mapping Soil Burn Severity sparked new interests in remote sensing and spatial modeling, finding that the field is inherently dynamic and exciting by virtue of regular launches of new earth observation satellites.
However, back on earth, he believes the best way to enact lasting change is through a community lens—a community that includes the full scope of biotic and abiotic.
In his spare time when Cameron isn’t already reading about, riding on, or repairing bicycles…he enjoys making food and recipes, playing music, photography, a bit of poetry, and perpetually falling in love with chaparral every time when out on a hike.