Hello all!

I am Jeffrey Chandler and I'm currently a research analyst at University of Montana studying future vegetation transitions and wildfire risk.
I'm a quantitative landscape ecologist and scientific programmer that wants to bridge the gaps between forestry, wildlife biology, paleoecology, and disturbance ecology.
I'm particularly interested in leveraging the full gambit of statistics and computer programming to analyze ecological relationships over space and time, notably quasi novel non-parametric methods, robust models, ensemble models, and simulation models.
My masters quantified the spatial aspects of fire-regime departure across western US forested landscapes, and I hope to translate it into broader questions concering the influence of fire exclusion on fire-regime departures and how biodiversity may respond.

Skills

I am a proficient programmer in R, Python, and Julia, particularly in spatial analysis, modeling, simulation, and statistics (6 years of experience).
I am comfortable with High Performance Computing, particularly on cluster networks.
I leverage open source software to the fullest extent, and I highly recommend you do too.
I'm competenent in C, C++, Javascript (mostly the Google Earth Engine API), and ArcGIS Pro (although the world will be better without ESRI).
I am also a proficient teacher's assistant/tutor, having been one for 6 different courses.

Starting up the Dendrochronology.jl project, a Julia port of dpl from openDendro. Just need the time (and funding) to get it to a workable and useful place.
I've also helped the GeoStats.jl ecosystem, particularly with adding functionality to move it towards a full fledged GIS.
I've helped manage, consult, and demonstrate useful data management and coding practices (although I'm always learning more).

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