My favorite part about my work is helping clients bring their data to life. I do this through automating data processing scripts, developing interactive R Shiny dashboards, performing spatial/statistical analyses, and generating aesthetic reports and visualizations using Quarto. I really enjoy sharing the R skills I’ve learned along my journey (see my Blog posts) to help others grow. I provide R workshops as a service to clients who are interested in deepening their teams’ technical skills. With over 2 years of experience teaching college coursework, teaching is something I truly love doing. Reach out to me if you are in a rut with a data problem or want to upskill your team!
My journey in environmental data began at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I studied the freshwater stream insect communities across California and Puerto Rico. Desipite my love for fieldwork, I quickly gravitated to running statistics and working with the data in R. I wanted to dive deeper into these skills, so I continued my pursuit of knowledge at the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara where I earned a Master’s in Environmental Science and Management with a focus in Data Science. Extensive technical coursework and project experience with NOAA and TNC showed me really how vast and exciting the world of data science really is. Today, I work as a contract Data Analyst at NOAA Fisheries and freelance data scientist where I get to exercise my passion for data every day and share it with others.
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz
Data Science and Management
R/RStudio, Git/GitHub, SQL, Bash, Excel, Google Drive
Remote Sensing & Geospatial Analysis
R, ArcGIS, QGIS
Machine Learning
R, supervised/unsupervised, validation, training/testing, optimization, feature engineering, model evaluation
Data Visualization
Shiny app/dashboard, ggplot, Leaflet, Quarto, RMarkown, CSS, HTML, Javascript, Tableau
Data Analyst – NOAA Fisheries (Full Time Contract)
Remote (3/25-pres.)
Developed interactive R Shiny tools to publicize West Coast commercial fisheries health and response to federal regulation federal, supporting federal fisheries policy making.
Trained statistical models on timeseries government datasets to analyze vessel fuel use.
Data Analyst – part time contract
(4/25-7/25) –Comunidad y Biodiversidad
- Built a marine conservation evaluation tool in R to automate inefficient excel sheets
(9/23-pres.) – Yoga Soup Studio
- Programmed automated R pipelines to identify, relocate, and archive terabytes of company data, improving data security and lowering thousands in expensive subscription costs.
Data Manager – Masters Project for NOAA Fisheries
UCSB (3/23-6/24)
Conducted geospatial analyses in R of 180k+ hectares of riparian habitat to model restoration costs, supporting strategic resource allocation for federally endangered salmon conservation.
Developed an interactive spatial web application to communicate priority restoration areas and budgets to NOAA restoration managers and conservation non-profits.
Biosecurity Intern – The Nature Conservancy
Santa Barbara, CA (6/23-9-23)
Executed a research project with statistical modeling, GIS, and a public presentation at the California Islands Symposium to address biosecurity weaknesses in the Channel Islands.
Coded logistic regression models with spatial covariates to predict invasive species behavior, performing model optimizations using feature engineering; mentored an undergraduate.
Teaching Assistant – UCSB
UCSB (9/22-6/24)
- Applied Ecology | Environmental Chemistry | Environmental Ethics
Biologist and Research Technician
Mammoth Lakes, CA (2/21–6/21) – Mountain View Biological Consulting
Mammoth Lakes, CA (1/21–6/22) – Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research laboratory
Santa Cruz, CA (9/2019-12-20) – UC Santa Cruz
Rio Piedras, PR (6/19-9/19) – University of Puerto Rico
- Google Data Analytics (2023)
- Bren Academic Excellence Recruitment Fellowship 2022 & 2023
- NRS Field Science Fellowship 2020
- Future Leaders in Coastal Science Award 2019
- Kathryn D. Sullivan Impact Award 2019
- Norris Center Student Natural History Award 2019
- Richard A. Cooley Award 2019
- Golden Key International Honors Society 2018
- The National Society of Collegiate Scholars 2017
- Honors Program UCSC
- UCSC Deans Honor Roll (2017-2020)
While much of my life passion lies in working with data, I enjoy getting outside equally as much. Some of my favorite activities include: rock climbing, surfing, paragliding, spearfishing, running, and practicing yoga.
