Auriel Fournier
Associate Research Scientist
Pekin, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAuriel Fournier is an experienced quantitative wetland ecologist and ornithologist with 11 years advancing wetland bird conservation and monitoring as Director of the Forbes Biological Station and Associate Research Scientist at the Illinois Natural History Survey. She holds a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology studying fall migration ecology of rails and has translated that expertise into applied decision-making tools for large-scale avian monitoring through a postdoc with the Gulf of Mexico Avian Monitoring Network. Auriel combines rigorous field skills—banding, radio telemetry, isotope work—with strong data science practices, including building R packages and scripting workflows for complex ecological datasets. Her work focuses on managing wetlands for secretive marshbirds like rails, blending hands-on stewardship with structured decision making to inform practical management. Based in Pekin, Illinois, she also brings a history of teaching and capacity building, from R workshops to mentoring students and volunteers.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Wildlife Ecology and Management, Minor : Remote Sensing, B.S, Wildlife Ecology and Management, Minor : Remote Sensing at Michigan Technological UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) at University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
English
Github Skills (72)
ecology10
r10
data-wrangling10
data-visualization10
unconf10
stable10
r-package10
visualization10
data-visualisation10
pepper9
science9
knitr9
hierarchical9
schema-org9
data-science9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aurielfournier/unpaid_technicians
Dec 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
aurielfournier/ebird
Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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