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Fort Collins, CO, US

Saint Louis, Missouri, US

Saint Louis, Missouri, US

Reston, VA, US

Full stack developer working with a large, mixed-discipline team of geographers and engineers at USGS-NGTOC. Worked on ETL'd products distributed through The National Map, including 3DEP-derived elevation data and hydrology data from the National Hydrography Dataset. I did my best work in the back-of-the-shop, largely in Python/SQL (GDAL/OGR and the OSGEO.

Washington, DC, US

I worked with the USFS's FHAAST, GTAC, and EFETAC teams analyzing petabyte-scale remotely sensed imagery; mostly from Sentinel-2, Landsat, and NAIP missions on Google's Cloud Platform (and Earth Engine). In terms of science, much of my work was focused on space-based insect and disease monitoring and aerial surveying. In terms of business, my role was data.

Lafayette, Colorado, US

• Most of my work with PLJV dealt with statistical modelling, remote sensing, and managing inventory and monitoring projects for grassland birds and waterfowl. Because I worked in a region that was almost exclusively.
• Parametric modelling of migratory and breeding-season bird "occurrence"​, occupancy, and abundance using citizen science datasets (e.g., eBird, Breeding Bird Survey) and robust monitoring datasets (e.g., using distance.
• Back-end development, spatial modelling, statistics, machine learning, and cartography with 'R'​/Python and C using Earth Engine, GDAL, GEOS, pandas, numpy, and scikit-learn, etc.
• Some front-end work with JS
• Landscape change modelling focusing on key anthropogenic drivers, including oil-and-gas development, wind energy development, groundwater extraction, and agricultural development.
• Mentoring and code reviews for early career analysts, programmers, and interns

Laramie, WY, US

• My focus at UW was fitting species distribution models to forecast range shifts and suitable climate conditions for three subspecies of big sagebrush. My research also explored the role of climate change on.
• Regular sampling of sagebrush plant communities throughout Wyoming and Montana. Collected soil-cores for texture analysis in the lab, collected data on vegetation cover; identifying shrubs, forbs, and grasses to.
• Fitting statistical and machine learning models associated with regression, likelihood analysis, and classification tasks. My research involved ensemble modeling with Generalized Linear Models (GLM), Generalized.
• Building expert-opinion based demographic models for cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) for use in spatial models of species abundance given site hydrology and soil factors influencing population growth.
• Developed novel methods for pseudo-absence generation, downsampling, and related GIS tasks using the 'R' language.

Boise, Idaho, US

• Responsible for collecting and analysing satellite-derived remote sensing data for central Idaho and helped parameterize and build resource selection (regression) models and survivorship models for radio-telemetried.
• Field surveys of vegetation and phenology plots: identifying forbs, shrubs, grasses, and seedlings to species. Collecting rumen samples and site vegetation to characterize ungulate nutrition in the lab.
• Geospatial and statistical analysis of mule deer habitat, range, phenology, and survivorship, python-based software development, and geodatabase management using ArcGIS.
• Platform testing and software development using virtualization on VirtualBox and VMWare.
• Managing GPS collar data using R and ArcGIS. Automated data input tasks by writing custom tools for ArcToolbox in Python.
• Designing Python scripts to automatically generate runtime data for the Geospatial Modeling Environment / Hawth's Tools to process large volumes of home range data (automated kernel density estimation). Observations.

Designed experiments to optimize production efficiency and accuracy, tested experimental reagents and target peptides, and LOTS of microarray imaging analysis for high throughput testing of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies for folks doing cancer research. I gained a great appreciation for image segmentation work, pattern recognition, and workflow.

Led a team collecting long-term natural seedling regeneration data for sites affected by the Clear Creek Wildfire in the Salmon-Challis National Forest (Idaho). Surveyed plant community composition over 1500 acres using Modified Whittaker Plots and FIA plots. Responsible for teaching field sampling techniques, plant identification, and data entry protocols.

Master Of Science (Msc), Botany (Ecosystem Modeling)

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Biology (Chemistry)

Biology