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Emma Tait

Organization: Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC)

Affiliations: Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, (FEMC)


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Biography

Emma was a Data Scientist for the Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC) from 2016-2022, with a brief hiatus for a master’s degree. She first joined FEMC as a student GIS technician, moved into a full time GIS analyst position working with regional partners standardizing and aggregating Forest Health data, and then filled the FEMC Data Scientist position. As a Data Scientist she provided analytical, scripting, web development, spatial analysis, and data modeling support as well as maintained FEMC’s online mapping portals, services and custom code.


FEMC Data Archive Projects Associated With:

Project Role Start Date of Role End Date of Role
EPSCOR Vegetative Phenology Metric DataParticipant 2015-01-01 2017-12-31
Northeastern Regional Aerial Detection Surveys and Insect and Disease SurveysParticipant 2016-06-02 2018-04-30
Quantifying the Economic Impacts of Invasive Forest Pests and Diseases in Urban AreasProject Lead/Principal Investigator 2019-08-02 2020-12-31
Assessing the risk of invasive plant introductions at trailheads in the Adirondack Park, NYParticipant 2019-08-01 2020-01-31

FEMC Documents Associated With:

Authors Name Date Type
Jennifer Pontius, James Duncan, Emma Tait, Matthias Sirch, Nancy Voorhis, Alyx Belisle, Pia Ruisi-Besares, Elissa SchuettTechnical Report: Monitoring and Communicating Changes in Disturbance Regimes (Version 1.0)2021-10-15Report
Emma TaitTAIT Photo2020-12-02Document
James Duncan, David Gudex-Cross, Emma TaitStandardized Spatial Datasets for Exploring the Connection Between Forest Cover and Water Quality in the Northeast2020-09-30Report
James Duncan, David Gudex-Cross, Emma TaitForest-Water Spatial Data Inventory Processing Scripts2020-09-29Other Documents
Alexandra Kosiba, James Duncan, Emma TaitInventory of moderate and intensive timber clearings detected via remote sensing in New Hampshire between 2000 and 2018 (Version 1.1)2020-07-13Report
Alexandra Kosiba, James Duncan, Emma Tait, Julia Pupko, Alyx BelisleNortheastern Forest Regeneration Data Network Methods Assessment V1.02020-07-07Other Documents
Alexandra Kosiba, James Duncan, Emma Tait, Julia Pupko, Alyx BelisleNortheastern Forest Regeneration Data Network V1.0 Final Report2020-07-07Report
Alexandra Kosiba, James Duncan, Emma Tait, Clarke Cooper, Gene Desideraggio, Alyx BelisleThreats to the Urban Forest: The potential economic impacts of invasive forest pests and diseases in the Northeast2020-06-10Report
Emma TaitScripts for invasive species and trip data processing and analysis2020-01-31Other Documents
Emma TaitTAIT Photo2019-01-23Document
Emma TaitTAIT Photo2019-01-23Document
Emma TaitTAIT Photo2019-01-23Document
William Keeton, Jennifer Pontius, Alexandra Kosiba, James Duncan, Emma Tait, Garrett MeigsNortheastern Forest Health Atlas - Technical Report2018-09-11Report
James Duncan, Emma TaitMassachusetts Forest Health Mapping Standardization, Analysis and Access: Final Report2017-01-27Publication
James Duncan, Emma TaitNew York Forest Health Mapping Digitization, Analysis and Access: Final Report2016-10-14Annual Report
James Duncan, Emma TaitNew York Forest Health Mapping Digitization, Analysis and Access2016-10-04Report