#XPDCKOON: Dirga Daniel
Email: [email protected]
Dirga Daniel began his education at Gadjah Mada University in 2009. After graduating, Dirga started his career by working as an intern at the TERANGI Foundation in 2014. During his internship, Dirga was also involved as a consultant in the creation of WWF-Indonesia's Marine Atlas v.2 and held the position of GIS Expert. During his internship, Dirga also worked on the side as a freelancer to create thematic maps. In February 2015, Dirga joined WWF-Indonesia as Spatial Planning and Biomonitoring Database Assistant. Dirga is responsible for providing spatial data, creating maps, supporting GIS capacity for the site, and maintaining monitoring tools such as AKVO. Dirga specializes in GIS software such as ArcGis, QGIS and svGIS, Web-based GIS applications (WebGIS), spatial databases (PostGreSQL) and basic skills in Satellite Imagery interpretation.
In Koon Expedition, Dirga was in charge of tagging data collection sites, observing incidental occurrences of marine mammals, measuring surface currents for the Index of Tourism Suitability (IKW), checking the validation of satellite image data, and last but not least, performing data management.