Our Team
About Mark
Mark founded Tukman Geospatial in 2003 after working for five years at Pacific Meridian Resources. Mark has created fine scale land cover and vegetation maps over large areas, and has worked with a wide range of satellite imagery, aerial photography, and LiDAR data to map land cover, vegetation communities, and forest structure. Mark holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a Master’s of Environmental Management from Duke.
About Dylan
Dylan has 10 years of experience working with imagery and using GIS for natural resource management. Dylan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from U.C. Santa Cruz and recently earned a Master’s of Forestry, Watershed, and Wildland Sciences from Humboldt State University. Dylan is an FAA certified drone pilot.
About Eddie
Eddie joined Tukman Geospatial in 2019 after receiving his bachelors in geography. Eddie has worked on numerous vegetation mapping and fire mapping projects for Tukman Geospatial and is building a strong set of GIS and remote sensing skills. Eddie is a Sonoma County native.
About Julia
Julia has been working in natural resources since 2011 in many different capacities: trail worker, creek stewardship manager, researcher, and educator. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Forestry and Natural Resources and a Master of Forestry degree from UC Berkeley, with a focus on fire ecology and western dry forest restoration.
About Brittany
Brittany joined Tukman Geospatial as a botanist after contributing to the Marin and San Mateo County vegetation maps as a surveyor and consultant. She has since divided her time between botanical surveying, photo-interpretative vegetation mapping, and geospatial data analysis and interpretation. Lately she has focused on working with agencies to design and implement surveying and data management tools that empower nuanced decision making. She is especially interested in using the growing body of large-scale geospatial datasets to pull out novel findings that facilitate multi-disciplinary understanding and collaboration.
About Ella
Originally from Sonoma County, Ella graduated from UC Berkeley in 2020 with a degree in Conservation and Resource Studies and certificates in Food Systems and Geographic Information Science and Technology. She has worked on a variety of natural resource projects as a GIS analyst and project coordinator. Currently, she supports the Tukman team as a research scientist..
About Elliot
Elliot has six years of experience working in natural resources in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierra Nevada. His work has included researching drought-related tree mortality, assisting with mapping efforts to support forest management planning, and implementing wildfire hazard mitigation projects throughout the East Bay Regional Parks District as a member of its Fuels Crew. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences and Forestry, and he is currently working toward a certificate in Geographic Information Systems Technology at Foothill College.
About Tyler
After growing up in Sonoma County, Tyler attended University of Washington where he received a B.S. in Environmental Science and Terrestrial Resource Management. After graduating, and a brief stint as a GIS intern in the wine industry, Tyler joined Tukman Geospatial where he is continuing to grow his skills as an analyst and mapper.
About Laura
Laura has been conducting botanical surveys since she attended UC Davis with a degree in Ecological Management and Restoration, graduating in 2010. Since 2012, she has been working as a vegetation mapping analyst. Her mapping projects and associated field surveys have covered a wide expanse of California, with an emphasis on the Modoc Plateau, Central Valley, Central Coast, and Suisun Marsh.
About Lauren
Lauren was born and raised in the East Bay Area and has a degree in Wildlife Biology and Conservation, and certification in GIS. She’s worn many hats throughout her career – from guiding hikers through Yosemite National Park, working on a search and rescue team while Wildland firefighting and researching fire regimes in Colorado, to working with endangered species in Hawaii. Despite her adventures throughout the country, Lauren’s career is driven by a deep love for the diverse ecosystems she grew up with in California and is excited to be utilizing her GIS skills with Tukman Geospatial.
Our Partners
About Kass
Kass is a key partner and adviser and her vision (and elbow grease) is evident in many of Tukman Geospatial’s projects and map products. Kass’s experience spans thirty years of managing and supervising GIS and remote sensing professionals, as well as leadership in GIS and remote sensing research and policy. As a non-tiring advocate of the Landsat, Ms. Green has testified before Congress and worked on numerous initiatives to support the Landsat Program. Her research includes innovations in automated change detection and object oriented image classification. Ms. Green chairs NASA’s Earth Science Applications Committee, co-founded and chaired the Department of the Interior’s Landsat Advisory Group and has served on a variety of Federal Advisory Committees for NASA, NOAA and DOI. She has taught numerous workshops for ASPRS and federal agencies, is a fellow and an honorary member in the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), and a past president of both MAPPS and ASPRS.
About Kyle
Kyle is a botanist and has worked with Tukman Geospatial as a science adviser and on a number of vegetation mapping projects. Kyle has worked across California and the Southwest collecting field vegetation data for the National Park Service and private industry. Kyle completed a Master’s degree at Northern Arizona University in 2006, where he explored floristics, local scale vegetation shifts across an edaphic gradient, and regional phtyogeographical affinities of Pinyon-Juniper woodlands on the Colorado Plateau. For his PhD from UC Davis, Kyle is currently studying mechanisms of speciation in the plant clade Streptanthus (s.l., Brassicaceae). Kyle continues to work with Tukman Geospatial, especially during field season.