Alex Chubaty
President at FOR-CAST Research & Analytics
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Chubaty is an ecologist and simulation modeller with 12 years’ experience building landscape-scale models of insect dispersal and forest disturbances to inform resource management and conservation planning. As President of FOR-CAST Research & Analytics and a Visiting Scientist at Natural Resources Canada, he bridges academic rigor (PhD, Simon Fraser) and applied decision support for land-use planning. He co-developed the SpaDES simulation platform, contributes R packages, and has hands-on full-stack experience improving visualization tooling like DiagrammeR’s mermaid styling. Passionate about reproducible, transparent analyses, he combines evolutionary and behavioural ecology insights with statistical and computational skills to deliver auditable, policy-relevant models. Based in Calgary, he is known for making complex landscape processes tractable and usable for managers and stakeholders.
12 years of coding experience
BSc, Biological Sciences, BSc, Biological Sciences at The University of CalgaryPhD, Biological Sciences, PhD, Biological Sciences at Simon Fraser University
English, French
Stackoverflow
262reputation
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3answers
2questions
Github Skills (12)
css10
mermaid10
graph10
graphing10
r10
visualizations9
visualization9
knitr6
rmarkdown6
macos6
latex6
roxygen6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rich-iannone/DiagrammeR
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Graph and network visualization using tabular data in R
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the CSS styling within the mermaid library, aiming to address and resolve issue #139. They made adjustments to the mermaid.css file to correctly namespace styles. The user's work involved merging remote branches to integrate updates. They also removed an arrowhead from a graph to experiment with fixing an issue.
tabularsocial-network-analysisigraphnetwork-visualizationgraph-functions
PredictiveEcology/CBMutils
Jan 2021 - Nov 2024
Utilities for modelling carbon in R based on CBM-CFS3
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 3 PRs in 3 years 10 months
r-packagecarboncbm-cfs3modelling
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