Internship and GIS Professional User Group

    For my internship, I was able to use my position in the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) to utilize elements from my job for my internship. I will be starting this week coming week on the 23rd of January. For my internship I plan to map out the previous Boil Water Notices that the FDEP has received for the year of 2025. In doing so I hope to make density maps for certain communities but also for the whole of the FDEP Northwest District. This will also help to further my use of GIS in potable water as I believe there are more ways to utilize GIS with my work. I plan to work for 10 hours a week for for about 13 weeks to reach my 130 hours requirement. Overall I believe this will be a good internship and provide a good real use of my GIS skills.

    As for the GIS user group to join, I chose the Seven Hills Regional User Group for GIS (SHRUG). It is one of the GIS groups that is more local to the Northwest District of Florida, it is in the Tallahassee area, and is not too far from where I live. The group meets quarterly to discuss data sharing, training, and industry focused technical topics. Another reason for joining is they accept everyone and there is not membership fees or requirements. I also choose to join it as I believe it would be good group to learn from, and also to attend one of the quarterly meetings if I am able.

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