# Axiel Solutions

> Axiel Solutions Hawaii LLC is a GIS consulting practice in Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, founded in 2025 by Erik Lash, GISP, RPA, a certified GIS Professional and Registered Professional Archaeologist with more than 25 years of experience in applied geography, GIS, archaeology, and environmental consulting. Available for teaming, multi-week projects, one-off tasks, and teaching.

Services: geospatial analysis; cartography, thematic mapping, and web mapping; custom GIS code tools (Python, PowerShell, T-SQL, Google Earth Engine); enterprise GIS architecture and administration; resource management, planning, and permitting GIS; civic services and public safety GIS; project management; technical writing and peer review; GIS education.

Regions of experience: Hawaiʻi, North Carolina, the Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Rapa Nui.

## Projects

- [ORCAAH: Hilo Bay water quality](https://axielsolutions.com/portfolio/orcaah): fork of NASA ORCAA for Google Earth Engine, parameterized for the Hilo Bay watershed; run during storm events since 2024.
- [HiCo FADS map](https://axielsolutions.com/portfolio/hico-fads): Leaflet map of Hawaiʻi County fish aggregating device buoys over GMRT seafloor topography.
- [Hurricane Irene storm surge](https://axielsolutions.com/portfolio/hurricane-irene-storm-surge): analysis of sound-side surge on North Carolina's Outer Banks using NOAA NetCDF data.
- [Croatan National Forest PETS habitat modeling](https://axielsolutions.com/portfolio/croatan-pets-habitat): protected species occurrence, home range, and habitat modeling for roadway expansion.
- [Ahu Ura Uranga Te Mahina, Rapa Nui](https://axielsolutions.com/portfolio/rapa-nui-ahu-survey): UNESCO-commissioned architectural mapping and excavation.
- [Permit GIS data conversion](https://axielsolutions.com/portfolio/permit-gis-data-conversion): weekly PowerShell, Python, and T-SQL ETL for a county permitting system; in production since 2019.
- [Mariana Islands cultural resources](https://axielsolutions.com/portfolio/mariana-islands-cultural-resources): archaeological studies and GIS data collection on five islands for the Joint Guam buildup.
- [Portfolio: all projects, other work, and publications](https://axielsolutions.com/portfolio)

## Credentials

- [GISP registry listing (GIS Certification Institute)](https://www.gisci.org/Already-a-GISP/GISP-Registry/name/Erik%20Lash)
- [RPA public profile (Register of Professional Archaeologists)](https://rpanet.org/Sys/PublicProfile/55951217)

## Publications

- [Pagan: the archaeology of a WWII battle never fought in the Northern Mariana Islands (Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 2018)](https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2018.1533667)
- [Intra-island source variability on Tutuila, American Samoa (Archaeology in Oceania, 2007)](https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4453.2007.tb00017.x)

## About and contact

- [About and credentials](https://axielsolutions.com/about)
- [Ways to work together and FAQ](https://axielsolutions.com/engagements)
- [Contact form](https://axielsolutions.com/contact)
- [LinkedIn: Erik Lash](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-lash/)
- [GitHub: app-EL](https://github.com/app-EL)