A Maxent Script Tool for ArcGIS

As part of my PhD research at the University of Arizona where I study biogeography, biodiversity and macroecology, I have been part of a group looking at large-scale biodiversity questions for New World plants. In this role, I have been responsible for generating many species distribution models using Stephen Phillip's Maxent software (and R with the Dismo...

Landing a GIS Job and GIS Skills Development in 2013

Note: This post is a 2013 update to my earlier post on Learning GIS and Getting a GIS Job – Some Tips and Tricks which was originally posted in 2009. In 2009 I wrote a post on how to obtain a GIS job that focused on pathways to learn GIS, critical skills every GIS analyst...

A Script Tool for Unzipping Files in ArcGIS

I was recently working with the SWReGAP data DVDs and wanted to develop an ArcGIS geoprocessing model to copy the DVD data, clip the rasters to the state of Arizona boundary and reproject them. Because the DVDs contained a raster dataset for each species that was stored as a zip file, I wanted a way to decompress each raster within my...