Conservation Science
Nasser Olwero
Information Unit Manager
Areas of Expertise: Conservation GIS and spatial modeling, Ecosystem services mapping, Database Management, Programming, Web development
Nasser Olwero
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Nasser Olwero has been working in conservation information systems for the past 10 years. He joined WWF Conservation Science Program in 2006 to oversee the GIS program. Nasser graduated from Moi University in Kenya with an MPhil. degree in Environmental Information Systems. Initial interest was in hydrologic drought modeling in the Lake Victoria basin and impacts on livelihood and conservation. He has since worked in conservation with a strong interest in application of information technology to wildlife ecology, trend analysis and human wildlife conflicts. He previously worked in conservation in Central Kenya where key projects included modeling elephant crop raiding incidents, herbivore population dynamics from aerial wildlife counts and application of NDVI imagery as a surrogate for rainfall data in data poor areas.
For the past three years Nasser has been working with the Natural Capital Project (http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org), a partnership that develops tools for valuing narural capital. With an interest in investigating and mapping the value of nature, Nasser is part of the software development team of InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) software, developing the software code in Python. He has participated in mapping ecosystem services in East Africa and Indonesia and is currently developing a tool for generating scenarios.
With a strong passion for application of technology to conservation, Nasser has continually blended information systems to conservation projects working on projects like the freshwater ecoregions of the world (www.feow.org) and the WildFinder (http://gis.wwfus.org/wildfinder) among other technology applications.
Email: nasser.olwero@wwfus.org
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