She is a full time Geographer at the U.S. Geological Survey-Texas Water Science Center where she is the project lead for several GIS projects including production of National Atlas small scale hydrography datasets and a web mapping application for tracing streams. She has also contributed to the Watershed Boundary Dataset, collaborated with hydrologists on modeling the effects of brush removal in watersheds, created a wildland fire history dataset for the middle Rio Grande in New Mexico, and created maps for USGS scientific publications. Florence has a B.A. in History from Carleton College. She took her first GIS course at ACC in 2002 and later went on to earn an M.A.G. from Texas State University-San Marcos with an emphasis in GIS.