Resume

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Education

Doctoral Candidate (ABD)
Department of Geography and the Environment
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Dissertation: “Cultivated borders: a critical remote sensing analysis of strategic agricultural development”
Committee: Dr. Aaron Moody (chair), Dr. Conghe Song, Dr. Christian Lentz, Dr. Sara Smith, and Dr. Colin T. West

2019 - current

2014 - 2018

Permaculture Design Certificate
Green Apprenticeship at the Center for Creative Ecology Kibbutz Lotan, Israel

Bachelor of Science (Honors)
Department of Geography
University of St Andrews, U.K.

Dissertation: “Fractured Landscapes: Modeling for Increased Connectivity of Euphydryas phaeton Conservation Design” (First Class Mark)
Advisors: Dr. Jed Long and Dr. Urška Demšar

Employment

2018 - 2019

Faculty Research Assistant
vanEnglesdorp Bee Lab, Department of Entomology
University of Maryland, College Park
PI: Dr. Dennis vanEnglesdorp

2015

Summer Political and Economic Section Intern
U.S. Embassy to Belgium
United States Department of State

Skills

Vector and raster data collection, management, and analysis

Geospatial data:

Remote Sensing & Imagery Analysis:

Land-use/land-cover change, spectral indices, principal component analysis, supervised and unsupervised imagery classification, image segmentation, cloud computing, machine learning models, object detection, mosaicking

Softwares & Platforms:

ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, Google Earth Engine, RStudio, ENVI, Drone Deploy, Pix4D, Adobe Design Suite

Drone/UAVs:

Imagery collection & processing, photogrammetry, structure from motion, familiarity with FAA regulations

Programming Languages:

R, Java Script, and some GIS-related Python

Field Locations:

Togo, Mexico, Iceland, United Kingdom,
United States (CA, TX, TN, MD, NC)

Gradate Research Consultant:

Publications

6.   West, C.T., Saparapa, R., Nomedji, K., Maloney, D. and Moody, A. (2022) “Protocols for Conducting Drone Fieldwork in Togo, West Africa.” Annals of Anthropological Practice, 46 (2), 170-181.

In review, revision, or preparation:

5.   Maloney, D. “Military agricultural reclamation: strategic land-use change to remake unruly desert borders” (dissertation chapter, in preparation)

4.   Maloney, D., West, C.T., Rojas, A., Moody, A., and GEVAPAF. “Mapping fine-scale land degradation neutrality in Northern Togo: a pilot participatory study using unpiloted aerial vehicles” (submitted, under review)

3.   Maloney, D. “Making a desert border: Past, present, and future of strategic land-use change in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley” (dissertation chapter, in preparation).

2.   Maloney, D., West, C.T., Rojas, A., Moody, A., and GEVAPAF. “Using UAVs to detect fine-scale signals of land degradation and rehabilitation in West African drylands” (in preparation)

1.   Maloney, D., West, C.T., and Moody, A. “Land-use and land-cover change drivers of browning and greening dynamics in Burkina Faso 2000-2018” (in preparation)

Fall 2023: Research Methods in Geography

Summer session 2020: Introduction to Remote Sensing of the Environment

Teaching at UNC

Teaching Fellow
(Instructor of Record):

Spring 2023: Introduction to Geographic Information

Falls 2023, 2020, and 2019: Introduction to Remote Sensing of the Environment

Fall 2022: Introduction to Geographic Information

Spring 2022: Introduction to GIS

Fall 2021: Food, Agriculture, and Society

Spring 2021: Introduction to Weather and Climate

Spring 2020: Blue Plane

Teaching Assistant:

2014

International Baccalaureate
George C. Marshall High School
Fairfax County, Virginia

2013