burton@mailbox.sc.edu
Hello and welcome to my world on the web. I am a Masters Candidate
with various interests pertaining to my discipline, yet Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) has long been my passion. My primary research interest
involves the application of spatial information processing techniques to
decision-making and risk assessment in flood prone areas. For example,
according to experts such as urban planning scholar William Fulton,
about 3.5 million acres of California land is devoted to urban use, a
figure is rising by more than 100,000 acres per year. The growth machine
is powerful in California in general, especially in the greater Sacramento
area where the state’s booming population and rising demand for affordable
housing have spurred huge developments in a historic floodplain. On the
northern edge of Sacramento, in an area now labeled North Natomas, tens of
thousands of homes are envisioned in low lying basins between the Sacramento
and American Rivers. A levee break could cause the area to be fully inundated,
leading to devastating loss of life and property. My interest involves
devising strategies by which my study area can effectively grow while dealing
with their flood problems and protecting the beneficial functions of their
floodplain.
EDUCATION
M.S., Geography,
University of South Carolina,
2007 (expected)
B.A.,
Geography with emphasis in Cartography, GIS, and Planning,
California State University, Sacramento, 2005
A.S., Social Science,
American River College, Sacramento, CA,2002
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