Jamie Carter is a remote sensing analyst with NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management (OCM) and serves coastal communities primarily in the Northeast Region. He has a bachelor’s degree in Ecology from Tulane University, a master’s degree in Physical Geography from Oregon State University, and over 10 years of experience developing and delivering geospatial decision support tools to strengthen coastal management and planning. Jamie’s core areas of technical expertise include lidar data analysis and digital image processing for topographic mapping, land cover mapping, and inundation mapping applications. He works closely with a variety of governmental and non-governmental organizations to bring geospatial technologies to bear upon coastal management issues.