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CV for Stace Maples - Geospatial Swiss Army Knife

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Stace D. Maples

stacey.maples@gmail.com

Location-Based Technologies Expert, Spatial Data Science Educator & Evangelist, Geospatial Swiss Army Knife, Habitual Tinkerer, Problem-solver & Lifetime Learner

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4917-3143
https://github.com/mapninja

References

On Request

Professional Objective

Expertise

Professional Experience

Assistant Director of Geospatial Collections & Services, Stanford University Libraries

March 2021-present

Interim Curator & Head, David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Libraries

January 2023 - November 2023

Lecturer, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University

EARTHSYS 144: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science (GIS) (ESS 164)

Autumn/Spring Quarter 2020-present

EARTHSYS 144/164 is an ever-evolving series of lectures grounding students in the foundations of spatial data structures, and hands-on experience with state-of-the=art spatial data technologies. Many students are exposed to programming and data science through the course, for the first time, and it has received almost universal praise from those who have have taken it. I’ve grown the course from fewer than 30 students, primarily from within the Earth Systems program, to over 70 students per quarter, representing a cross section of disciplines from Earth Systems, to Journalism, to Public Health.

CEE 165H: Big Earth Hackathon Wildland Fire Challenge

Spring Quarter 2018-present

CEE 165H is an elective course that has evolved from our annual Big Earth Hackathon. The course provides students with exposure to the fundamentals of Wildland Fire research and solutions, through a series of weekly sessions that range from data skills workshops to direct interaction with Researchers, Managers and First Responders working directly in Wildfire Management and Response. I have been co-planning and co-teaching the course with Derek Fong, since 2018.

Geospatial Manager

Stanford Geospatial Center, Branner Earth Sciences Library, Stanford University

Jan 2015-March 2021

DJ/Radio Personality

KZSU 90.1 FM, Stanford

Jan 2016 - Present

https://soundcloud.com/mapninja
https://zookeeper.stanford.edu/?action=viewDJ&seq=selUser&viewuser=1428

Music DJ playing everything from Conlon Nancarrow’s experiments with “compositions beyond human ability” for player piano, to the latest psych-rock from Ty Segall. Interviews have included “Hannibal” author Patrick N. Hunt, slowcore luminary Kris Wheat of Bedhead and Angie Lee, HigherEd liason for GIS behemoth, Esri. Regular music reviewer. Instructor in the KZSU Air Clear Training curriculum for new DJs. Writing, voice and production of PSA and promotional spots.

Geographic Information Systems Specialist & Instruction Coordinator, Yale University Library, Map Collection

Sept 2010 - Jan 2015

Geographic Information Systems Assistant & Instruction Specialist, Yale University Library Map Collection

Aug 2005 - Sept 2010

Research / Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Dallas

Aug 2003 to Aug 2005

Owner/Manager, Skin&Bones

June 1989 – Sept 2004

Additional Teaching

Selected Projects

“Making Pastoralists Count” Nomadic Pastoralist Settlement Survey

Video Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0VBNW87ArI

Funding: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Publications:

In one of its first grants, The Digital Globe Foundation (DGF) released imagery to Stanford for analysis of health in nomadic pastoral populations in Ethiopia. We used the data to locate mobile settlements quickly enough to develop and deliver hundreds of surveys to people living in the remote Nyangatom region of Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley. With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the team has expanded the model to a pipeline that implements deep learning for the detection of settlements in high-cadence, medium resolution satellite imagery. Our approach allows rapid creation of settlement surveys, and the subsequent design and implementation of randomized public health surveys that have thus far been impossible to conduct on these types of highly mobile populations.

MotoMeds.org

https://nelson.research.pediatrics.med.ufl.edu/motomeds/

Vidoe Overview: https://www.pbs.org/video/headline-humboldt-august-25th-2023-pflvcp/

Clinical Trial:

Improving Nighttime Access to Care and Treatment (Part 2) (INACT2)
ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT03943654

Publications:

The MotoMeds pediatric call center and mobile pharmacy service prevents pre-emergent illnesses such as fever and diarrhea from transitioning into emergencies during the nighttime hours – a critical healthcare service where medical resources are often prohibitively expensive and inaccessible in places like Haiti. I have been a consulting spatial data scientist and field data specialist for the project since it began after discussions with local medical professionals, while our team was attending the “VisiEAU 2018 A Vision for Water in Haiti” conference, hosted by the Université d’Etat d’Haiti Campus des Sciences de la Santé . My responsibilities have included design and implementation of field survey frameworks and systems for highly-dispersed, unaddressed households in Les Cayes, Leogane and Gressier communes, Haiti.

Outbreak Responder

The app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stooltool

Evaluation of a Smartphone Decision-Support Tool for Diarrheal Disease Management in a Resource-Limited Setting

The Outbreak Responder is a decision-support and epidemiology platform for use during diarrheal disease outbreaks. There are two components. The first component is a rehydration calculator that automates World Health Organization guidelines for how to assess and rehydrate a patient with diarrheal disease. The calculator is designed to be used in 30 seconds and does not require an account or connectivity. The second component is intended for the Outbreak Response Team that may include epidemiologists, public health administrators, and clinicians. The design leverages geospatial mapping to identify critical actionable data.

Geo4LibCamp

Role: Co-founder/Host

https://geo4libcamp.org/
Geo4LibCamp is an annual unconference hosted at Stanford University. A three day unconference, followed by two working days to collaborate, learn, and make progress on spatial data services and support in libraries.

iiif + Maps Community

Role: Co-founder/Co-Chair

https://iiif.io/community/groups/maps/
This group works on developing extensions that enable, and defining best practice in, associating geographical information with iiif image materials. This includes iiif recipes but also more in depth work to align efforts to link iiif maps to geospatial systems. The group has produced two extension to the iiif imagery framework: the navPlace extension, which allows geographic data associated with digital objects and collections to be provided in a structured manner; and the geoRef Extension, which allows digitized cartographic collections to be placed in their geographic context.

GISDay@Stanford

Stanford’s annual celebration of all things location, including the cutting edge of geospatial technologies. Development, planning and coordination of the event, 3 years running. The schedules speak for themselves. Off-the-hook fun for geonerds.

2015 - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gisdaystanford-tickets-19264666135#
2016 - https://stanfordgisday2016.sched.com/
2017 - https://gisdaystanford2017.sched.com/
2018 - https://gisdaystanford2018.sched.com/

Photogrammar

photogrammar.yale.edu

Yale University’s first NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant [HD-51421-11]

“The Photogrammar Project is a Yale University Public Humanities Project designed to offer an interactive web-based open source visualization platform for the one-hundred and sixty-thousand photographs created by the federal government from 1935 to 1943 under the Farm Securities Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).”

Working closely with other members of the Photogrammar Team, I have been responsible for the creation and management of the geospatial data for the project. This has included geocoding ninety-thousand images (~5000 unique locations) using various geocoding platforms and APIs. The bulk of the geocoding work was done using Tulane University’s Geolocate API, through Google/OpenRefine. Work also included the attachment of location information to the existing collection metadata and association with historic county boundary data, using SQL, for visualization in the CartoDB platform.

Education

FAA Part 107 License Preparation, Pilot Institute, 2020
Carpentries Trainer Certification Workshop Feb 2018
SCRUM Product Owner Certification, Stanford University, Nov 2016
Intro to SCRUM, Stanford University, Nov 2016
QGIS Academy, DelMar College , 2015
Esri T3G (Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS) Institute, June 13-18th 2010
ESRI Data Management in the Multiuser Geodatabase / ArcGIS Server Enterprise Configuration and Tuning for SQL Server, July 2009

University of Texas at Dallas - 2005

National Park Service / Dept. of the Interior - 2004

Southern Methodist University -1997

Ft. Burgwin Archaeological Field School - 1996

Technical Skills