BIS welcomes new staff member

We welcome Michelle Wienhold to BIS in the new position of Data Officer.

Michelle graduated from the University of Iowa in 2000 with a BA in Anthropology. Before moving to the UK, she worked for 7 years as a field archaeologist in the Midwest and Southwest United States. Her primary responsibilities included using GIS to study and analyse archaeological datasets and managing data collection in the field. Michelle completed her M.Sc. in GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology in 2008.  Her main research interests include erosion, hydrological and predictive modelling, applied cartography and LiDAR analysis.

Michelle will lead on managing the BIS spatial species and habitat datasets, and analysis and predictive modelling projects.