KIM FISHER

Hi, I’m Kim Fisher.
I create spatial analyses, applications, data visualizations, and scripts for projects that aim to make a better world.

I write code in a variety of languages, manage data stored in several different relational database systems, perform spatial analyses, and manage complex projects with teams of developers, designers, and scientists. I favor open data and open code, and my current toolbelt focuses on Python, Django, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, QGIS/GDAL/OGR, numpy/pandas/pyplot, Angular, jQuery, D3, nginx, Docker, and AWS. I have co-authored or contributed significantly to a number of publications.

I am a Spatial Analyst and Developer at the Wildlife Conservation Society, cofounder of Square Water, and partner to artist Heidi Neilson.

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Angular arcgis arcpy django Earth Engine APIs esri js API gdal/ogr google maps API java jquery Mannahatta/Welikia MERMAID mysql nodejs numpy pandas/matplotlib php postgresql/postgis python React redis shell scripts species / habitat modeling Visionmaker wordpress

PUBLICATIONS

Sanderson, E. W., K. Fisher, N. Robinson, D. Sampson, A. Duncan, L. Royte. 2022. The march of the human footprint. EcoEvoRxiv. https://ecoevorxiv.org/d7rh6/

Meixler, M., Fisher, K., and Sanderson E.W. 2019. Latitude-enhanced species-area relationships for conservation planning. Landscape Ecology. DOI 10.1007/s10980-019-00863-2.

Sanderson, E. W., M. Giampieri, K. Fisher, S. Allred, B. DuBois, K. Bunting-Howarth, M. Meixler, and J. Barr. 2019. Visionmaker Jamaica Bay: Analysis of community-generated adaptation strategies to enhance resilient ecosystems in and around Jamaica Bay, post-Hurricane Sandy. Natural Resource Report NPS/NCBN/NRR—2019/1925. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2265049

Sanderson, EW, Moy, J., Rose, C., Fisher, K., Jones, B., Balk, D., Clyne, P., Miquelle, D., and Walston, J. 2019. Implications of the shared socioeconomic pathways for tiger (Panthera tigris) conservation. Biological Conservation 231: 13-23.

Fischbach, J.R., Knopman, D., Smith, H., Orton, P., Sanderson, E., Fisher, K., Moray, N., Friedberg, A., and Parris, A. 2018. Building Resilience in an Urban Coastal Environment: Integrated, Science-based Planning in Jamaica Bay, New York. RAND Corporation.

Giampieri, M., DuBois, B., Allred, S., Bunting-Howarth, K., Fisher, K., Moy, J., and Sanderson, E.W. 2017. Visions of resilience: lessons from applying a digital democracy tool in New York’s Jamaica Bay watershed. Urban Ecosystems. DOI 10.1007/s11252-017-0701-2.

Zahler, P., Sanderson, EW, Fisher, K, and Spagnoli, C. 2017. Building a migration atlas for mammals in Central Asia. Tracks: The Inflight Magazine for COP12 Convention on Migratory Species.

McCarthy, T., D. Mallon, E.W. Sanderson, P. Zahler and K. Fisher. 2016. What is a snow leopard? Biogeography and status overview. In (Eds.) McCarthy, T., and Mallon, D. Snow Leopards. Academic Press, New York.

Orton, P., K. MacManus, K., E. Sanderson, J. Mills, M. Giampieri, K. Fisher, G. Yetman, E. Doxsey-Whitfield, D. Hugens, Z. Wu, L. Yin, N. Georgas, and A. Blumberg. 2016. Quantifying the Value and Communicating the Protective Services of Nature-Based Flood Mitigation using Flood Risk Assessment. Final Report to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Ocean Climate Applications program. Stevens Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and Wildlife Conservation Society, Hoboken NJ and New York, NY.

Sanderson, E.W., D. Mallon, T. McCarthy, P. Zahler, and K. Fisher. 2016. Global strategies for snow leopard conservation: a synthesis. In (Eds.) McCarthy, T., and Mallon, D. Snow Leopards. Academic Press, New York.

Stoner, K., A. R. Hardy, K. Fisher, and E. W. Sanderson. 2015. Jaguar Habitat Connectivity and Identification of Potential Road Mitigation Locations in the Northwestern Recovery Unit for the Jaguar. Report to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tucson, AZ. Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx NY.

Polisar, J., Matthews, S.M., Sollman, R., Kelly, M.J., Beckmann, J.P., Sanderson E.W., Fisher, K., Culver, M., Núñez, R., Rosas Rosas, O.C., López González, C.A., Harmsen, B.J., O’Brien, T.G., De Angelo, C., and Azevedo, F.C.C. 2014. Protocol of Jaguar Survey and Monitoring Techniques and Methodologies. Report to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tucson, AZ. Bronx, NY: Wildlife Conservation Society.

Sanderson, E. W., and K. Fisher. 2013. Jaguar habitat modeling and database update. Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, USA. Report to US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Sanderson, E.W., McKibben, F. and Fisher, K. 2012. A First Look at the Historical Ecology of Newtown Creek, Brooklyn and Queens, New York. Report to the NYCEF Newtown Creek Fund. Bronx, NY: Wildlife Conservation Society. September 30, 2012.

Warren, Ymke, and Albert Ekinde. 2008. Mone Forest Reserve: Large Mammal Survey November-December 2007. Unpublished report to The Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, SW Province, Cameroon, The Wildlife Conservation Society, and The Arcus Foundation.