Erik Fintel has worked at the Geographical Information Center (GIC) at California State University, Chico for 17 years. He is currently a Senior GIS Analyst helping to lead the work done on National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) update projects and NHD sub-stewardship in California. His previous work has primarily focused on using geographic information systems (GIS) for environmental resources, including topics such wetland and surface water modeling, alliance level vegetation mapping, historical vegetation mapping, Central Valley and Delta levee mapping, and levee habitat mapping.