Riley Q. Sundberg

Repository for Github portfolio created for ESIIL Stars Internship program 2024, and for creations from other paths.

Riley Q. Sundberg

Hello! My name is Riley. I was born and raised on the beautiful Eastern Foothills of the Rocky Mountains; on the historic and current lands of Apaches, Utes, Cheyennes, Comanches, Arapahoes, and other first peoples with these lands. I am a passionate and curious human, currently studying at MSU of Denver for a Biology of Science Degree with a GIS minor. I have four years of experience with ecological restoration/land stewardship work, with Wildland Restoration Volunteers and a season with Bear Creek Lake Park. 7 years combined experience as a Department or volunteer lead, and a current research intern with ESIIL Stars Earth Data Science Lab. I am looking to contribute more to the beauty and understanding of this world. I am fascinated with ecology, particularly botanical aspects, interactions, and the potential of Geographic Information Systems to expand data analysis and knowledge for implementing and communicating solutions. I am interested in helping create a more equitable world beyond our current systems of oppression, focused on GDP and growth, to systems where the people have the power and ecological resilience and health, and we as a part of that ecology, are the priority.

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Contact Information

  • Email: riley.sundberg22@gmail.com
  • GitHub:
  • LinkedIn: In progress

Treasures from My Adventures Otherwise known as; Some Skills Gleaned from Classes Near and Far

  • Plant ID practice, use of dichotomous keys
  • Bird ID skills
  • Experience maintaining a scientific field journal

ESILL STARS Projects

Created a migration map of the Tasiyagnunpa migration (or Western Meadowlark, or Sturnella neglecta) by ecoregion. Tasiyagnunpa is the Lakota name of the Western Meadowlark

Data Credit; GBIF and EPA Ecoregion data See a this map on its own page here

Here is the link to the entire notebook to make that map, including downloading the data, spatially joining the ecoregions and Tasiyagnunpa observations

Read more about the Lakota connection to Tasiyagnunpa from Native Sun News Today

Creating Reproducible Climate Analysis with Python

Here is the notebook where the reproducible analysis code is

Other things

Currently attending MSU Denver as a senior undergraduate