GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS
AND MAPPING

APPLIED SPATIAL
RESEARCH

LAND USE
PLANNING

Northwest GIS, LLC
Juneau, Alaska
colin@northwestgis.com

GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS

AND MAPPING

Modern mapping tools help bring powerful insights into the relationships between a place and the way it’s used. At Northwest GIS we help our clients harness that power to answer questions about how to balance objectives and visualize alternative futures with landscape planning efforts.

  • Natural and cultural resource inventories
  • Forest restoration planning
  • Wildlife habitat modeling
  • LiDAR applications and analyses
  • Geospatial technical support
  • Web-based data dashboards

APPLIED SPATIAL

RESEARCH

There is a vast body of science to build from in better understanding complex management problems. We’re interested in synthesizing that information to bring context and generate new ideas while meeting the needs of our clients with a rigorous scientific process.

  • Leading collaborative science processes
  • Provide geospatial expertise to larger science projects
  • Peer review publication
  • Technical reports
  • Literature reviews

LAND USE PLANNING

Planning for the future can be a daunting task. We help our clients better understand their existing resources, workshopping new ideas with maps, models, and web-based data dashboards. We have extensive experience in a broad array of natural resource sciences and community-based planning.

  • Community land use visioning exercises
  • Spatially derived scenario planning

ABOUT

Principle

Colin Shanley

Colin Shanley is a passionate spatial analyst. He has spent the past 20 years applying the latest geospatial technology to help solve myriad types of problems. His interest is in working with diverse clients to explore what maps, spatial data, and modeling can do to help illuminate solutions. He was previously a GIS Analyst for the Alaska Chapter of The Nature Conservancy for 15 years. Before that, he earned a MS degree in Wildlife Biology from University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a BS degree in Environmental Sciences from Western Washington University. He lives in Juneau, Alaska with his wife and two growing boys.