Melissa Slater is a data scientist with over 15 years of experience using science and technology to provide data-driven solutions to interdisciplinary problems in geography, cartography, geosciences and related branches of science and engineering. She has worked in the fields of ecology, environmental remediation, permitting and compliance, commercial mapping, local government, conservation, and natural resource management. Her expertise incorporates project coordination, strategic planning, spatial enterprise applications, analyses, database development and management, data product development, web mapping application integration and cartographic visualization.