Hayden Elza
Position title: GIS Developer
Email: elza@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-8106
Address:
385 Science Hall
550 North Park Street
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
Hayden conducts research, development, and support of new geospatial technologies, as well as project coordination and technical support for the SCO Student Lab.
Before SCO Hayden worked in the Forest Ecosystem and Landscape Ecology Lab at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with David Mladenoff. There he managed a database containing 374,000 bearing tree records from the original Wisconsin GLO survey. He has also worked on GIS and web mapping projects for David Hart in the Sea Grant Institute.
Hayden has a BS in Forest Science from UW-Madison and a GIS Capstone Certificate from UW-Madison Geography. His interests include: free and open source GIS, open data, spatial databases, and spatial web tools.