Catherine Burton
Geography / Geographic Techniques graduate with MA from San Francisco State University. Currently working as Owner/Manager at Endpoint Environmental, LLC.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Groups: | Women 2.0 |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | California State University System - San Francisco State University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | NASA Ames Research Center DEVELOP Program, Mountain View, CA |
| Position: | Project Manager |
| Time period: | December 2003 - November 2005 |
| Description: | - Secured 4-month GIS/remote sensing-image processing contract with California Integrated Waste Management Board to produce successful proof-of-concept project.
- Supervised one geospatial technology technician, coordinated fieldwork, established and maintained collaborative client relationships, created presentations, and assisted with technical research and paper. - Drafted and delivered presentations at: NASA Headquarters - Washington D.C., 2005; American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Conference - Baltimore, MD 2005 and Reno, NV, 2006; presented project poster at American Geophysical Union Conference - San Francisco, CA, 2004 and 2005. |
| Employer: | Team A.I. Motorvators, Los Angeles, CA |
| Position: | Satellite Imagery Expert / Cartographer |
| Time period: | December 2002 - November 2005 |
| Description: | Project: U.S. Department of Defense DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous bot ground vehicle race
- Resourced and secured team sponsors DigitalGlobe and Radarsat to donate imagery for the purpose of creating digital, GIS-based, ground reference maps for autonomous vehicle. - Assisted team with testing and operations during race trials at Pomona Raceway in Pomona, CA, 2004. |
| Employer: | San Francisco State University Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco, CA |
| Position: | Teacher’s Assistant / Co-lecturer, GPS Lab |
| Time period: | December 2002 - November 2003 |
| Description: | Class: Geography 621—GIS for Environmental Analysis (Professor: Dr. Patricia Foschi)
- Assisted with preparing and organizing class work utilizing ERDAS and ESRI software. - Co-designed and conducted graduate-level GPS lab integrating Trimble GPS, Pathfinder, and ESRI software. |
| Employer: | University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
| Position: | Geography Instructor |
| Time period: | December 2002 - November 2003 |
| Description: | Class: Wednesday Explorations—SF Bay Area Cartography and Geography
- Designed and conducted original six-week summer school course on technical sub-disciplines of geography using San Francisco Bay Area as regional base. |
| Employer: | San Francisco State University Romberg Tiburon Center, Tiburon, CA |
| Position: | Research Technician I |
| Time period: | December 2001 - November 2005 |
| Description: | - Assisted high-profile Principal Investigators with development of a unique remote sensing image analysis formula and produced report on measuring evapotranspiration using remote sensing techniques.
- Performed image orthorectification, mosaicking, feature extraction, change detection, and analysis. |
EDUCATION
| University: | California State University System - San Francisco State University |
| Time period: | 2006 |
| Degree: | Geography / Remote Sensing, MA |
| University: | California State University System - San Francisco State University |
| Time period: | 2002 |
| Degree: | Geography / Geographic Techniques, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Thesis: Mapping Egeria densa using satellite imagery and a computer-assisted algorithm
Contributors: Catherine Huybrechts Burton, Dr. Patricia Foschi, Dr. Ellen Hines, Cindy Schmidt Using high-resolution satellite imagery to detect waste tire sites in two differing climate regions in California Contributors: Becky Quinlan, Catherine Huybrechts Burton, Cindy Schmidt and Dr. Joseph Skiles. Investigating the impact of fire behavior modeling and selective-cut simulations on carbon budget management in the Fremon-Winema National Forest Contributors: Catherine Huybrechts Burton, Casey Cleve, Kevin Hsu, Michael Jin, Cindy Schmidt, and Dr. Joseph Skiles |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Member (2002 to present); Bay Area Automated Mapping Association, Member (2005 to present); Small Business Administration SCORE Program, Counseled by Retired Industry Executives (2005 to present); Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Meetup.com Group, Organizer (2007 to present); Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks LinkedIn.com Group, Manager (2008 to present); U.S. Chamber of Commerce Space Enterprise Council, Member (2008 to present) |
