Connor Wright

Design a scalable end-to-end resource workflow in ArcGIS for a public safety department serving 1 million residents, consolidating georeferenced field survey data into a resource request dashboard used by the outreach team leader to prioritize and filter requests before official submission to state and federal agencies during emergencies. Deliver GIS support products, including shelter status dashboards, power status dashboards, and planning support maps, to emergency responders and public service workers serving a county of over 1 million residents recovering from 3 major hurricanes in 3 years; products slated for deployment in the 2026 Hurricane Season. Co-authoring a peer-reviewed manuscript (in progress) targeting the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; ran a logistic regression on emergency preparedness material downloads across Lee County, finding hurricane presence drove a 750% likelihood to download versus 50% for targeted flyer outreach in vulnerable communities.

GIS Analyst Intern at Lee County Public Safety (2025-05 – 2026-05)

• Design a scalable end-to-end resource workflow in ArcGIS for a public safety department serving 1 million residents, consolidating georeferenced field survey data into a resource request dashboard used by the outreach team leader to prioritize and filter requests before official submission to state and federal agencies during emergencies.
• Deliver GIS support products, including shelter status dashboards, power status dashboards, and planning support maps, to emergency responders and public service workers serving a county of over 1 million residents recovering from 3 major hurricanes in 3 years; products slated for deployment in the 2026 Hurricane Season.
• Co-authoring a peer-reviewed manuscript (in progress) targeting the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; ran a logistic regression on emergency preparedness material downloads across Lee County, finding hurricane presence drove a 750% likelihood to download versus 50% for targeted flyer outreach in vulnerable communities.
• Presented GIS emergency management work at the 2025 SWFL GIS Expo to over 200 professionals.

Research Fellow at Florida Gulf Coast University (2024-08 – 2026-01)

• Co-authored an Evidence Gap Map on effective agricultural interventions, submitted to the Journal of Climate Policy (Taylor & Francis, Jan 2026), examining the spatial distribution of climate interventions across 100+ low- and middle-income countries.
• Conducted multi-scale spatial analysis of international study locations using ArcGIS Pro to identify geographic research gaps, regional clustering, and underrepresented areas.
• Produced analytic map products visualizing global evidence density across regions and income groups to support comparative policy assessment.

Environmental Specialist Intern at Sarasota County Parks, Recreation, and Natural Resources (2024-05 – 2024-08)

• Conducted georeferenced habitat surveys across 4 coastal sites and over 20 sq/mi of conservation land, contributing to a 2023 resurvey comparing population changes since 2020; delivered updated species and land datasets to Selby Gardens in Sarasota for use in conservation planning.
• Performed rapid GIS-supported damage assessments of 6 coastal parks during Hurricane Debby, tallying over 100 acres of county land to inform emergency planning and reconstruction.

Research Assistant at Florida Gulf Coast University (2023-01 – 2023-08)

• Built and automated a data collection script in Python and R to scrape and parse TV news archive data, outputting cleaned, formatted datasets in Excel for further analysis.
• Contributed to a research project examining connections between TV news reporting of weather events and Google Trends data on climate change inquiry.

MS in Environment and Sustainability, Concentration: Geospatial Data Science – University of Michigan (2028-12)

BA in Environmental Studies, Concentration: Ecology and Environmental Assessment; Minor: Political Science – Florida Gulf Coast University (2026-05)