Audberto Quiroga

I'm a Colombian native who is enthusiastic about conducting research to create technological tools that will improve the lives of small farmers.  Since 2011, I've worked in the agricultural industry. I've gained a variety of useful abilities, such as the capacity to assess climate change vulnerability, create plans for coping with climate change and climate variability, model and analyze complex data using GIS tools, and program in R and Python.

Private Consulting                                       Santander de Quilichao, Colombia

GIS consultor                                                           July 2022-Present

•Project Developer/Manager & GIS specialist/Unmanned Aircraft Systems/Remote Sensing/Data analysis/innovation and scaling for companies such as Vivocuenca, Managro fresh, and the Unidad de Planificación Rural Agropecuaria (UPRA).

Cenicafé (National Coffee Research Center)                                                   Chinchiná, Colombia

GIS Analyst                                                                                                April 2015-June 2022

•Modelling, regionalization, spatialization (maps), and scaling of the main physiological, chemical, and climatic parameters for coffee crops and soil of Colombia (Caldas, Norte de Santander, and Sierra Nevada) for different projects financed by the National System of Oil Royalties using R, Python, and ArcGIS.

•Design, implementation, monitoring, and management of spatial databases of coffee growers using R and ArcGIS.

•Interpolation of climatic data through the Anusplin software for the Colombian coffee region.

•Evaluation of remote sensing innovations in the cultivation of coffee crops using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (DJI Phantom 2, 3, 4, and S1000+).

•Communicated complex research findings to the scientific community and coffee farmers.

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Cenicafé (National Coffee Research Center)                                              Chinchiná, Colombia

Research assistant                                                                June 2013-December2014

•Construction, modelling, regionalization, and spatialization (maps) of the main physiological, chemical, and climatic parameters for coffee crops and soil for the Origin Designation of Tolima certification.

•Design, implementation, monitoring, and management of spatial databases using R and ArcGIS.

•Construction of the final document for the origin designation.

Bio Advisers of Colombia S.A.S                                                                                 Cali, Colombia

Research assistant                                  February 2013-May 2013

•Data collection and spatial analysis of fauna records using R, and ArcGIS.

•Supervision of personnel in charge of field sampling.

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).                             Palmira, Colombia

Research assistant III                                                                     January 2012-January 2013

•Modelling and identification of areas for perennial and short-cycle crops for Colombia, Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Jamaica to evaluate the impact of climate change in vulnerable communities.

•Strategy development for climate change predictions on agricultural areas of the countries mentioned above.

•Design, implementation, and monitoring of innovative algorithms for data processing using R, Python, DIVA-GIS, Ecocrop, and ArcGIS.

Master’s in Geographic Information Technologies                                                        June 2021

University of Manizales, Colombia

Specialist in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)                                             September 2016

University of Manizales, Colombia

Biologist                                                                                                                     December 2011

University of Tolima, Colombia