Rachel Shmookler
HERO Biographies
Jenner Alpern, Undergraduate '09
Research Interests:
I am a senior soon to be 5th-year in Environmental science. I am interested
in a lot of different topics including Climate change, sustainability, low
carbon energy, and water conservation. I became aware of GIS upon entering Clark
and have become more and more interested ever since. I love solving problems and
puzzles and to me GIS is like working with very intricate and meaningful
puzzles. My interest in GIS, my affinity for the environment, and a desire to
conduct meaningful research led me to apply to the HERO program my junior year.
I have been working with HERO since the summer prior to my senior year.
HERO Experience:
As a member of the HOLMES (HERO Object-based Lawn Mapping Exploration of Suburbia) team I have had the opportunity to work
collaboratively with great people and use some of the most sophisticated
software in the business. I have been working on developing a method for
classifying very high-resolution aerial photographs using object-oriented
classification techniques. My teammates and I are in the process of using this
method to create very detailed land-cover maps of 26 towns in Massachusetts.
With HOLMES, I have had the opportunity to present my work to numerous parties,
from classes and groups at Clark to anyone who was interested at the 2009 AAG
conference in Las Vegas. I have even conducted training on the method we’ve
developed in places as far away as Arizona State University. It has been great working
with such an awesome team of students and professors as well as collaborating
with others throughout the GIS community.
Personal:
Outside of HOLMES I am very active. I had the privilege of playing on the Clark
University Men’s Soccer team for four years. In my senior season we qualified
for the NCAA tournament for the first time in 21 years! I also love to
snowboard, paint, go to concerts, and travel travel travel. I spent my second
semester junior year in Europe at the University of East Anglia. It was truly a
great experience to live in England and get a chance to travel around Europe.
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