Braeden Van Deynze
Natural Resource Economist
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBraeden Van Deynze is a natural resource economist with nine years of applied research and policy experience focused on fish and wildlife, currently working on endangered salmon management with NOAA Fisheries and the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife. He combines rigorous panel data and stated-preference methods with large-scale survey design—having led a 10,000-farmer regional survey at MSU—to quantify how stakeholders adapt to changing ecosystems. Comfortable with R and Stata and learning Python and MatLab, he bridges quantitative analysis, spatial data visualization, and stakeholder engagement across interdisciplinary and remote teams. His background includes mentoring students, teaching as lead instructor, and translating research for both academic and public audiences, reflecting a knack for turning complex ecological economics into actionable management insights. An under-the-radar strength is his experience coordinating large field and survey teams, which supports pragmatic implementation of conservation policy.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Economics and Biology, Bachelor, Economics and Biology at Gonzaga UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Agriculture, Food, and Resource Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Agriculture, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (15)
passage10
agriculture6
r5
temporal5
statistics5
spatial4
meta2
data-visualization2
google-places-api2
qualtrics2
google-maps-api1
google-map1
collaboration1
react1
google-maps1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vandeynze/salmon_culverts
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
A project aiming to improve the use of cost models in culvert improvement planning for salmon fish passage.
Contributions:131 commits, 16 PRs, 117 pushes in 2 years 6 months
aimingfish-passagefishimprovementplanning
vandeynze/salmon_ag
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
A project examining temporal and spatial interfaces between Pacific salmon and agriculture.
Contributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
spatialpacifictemporalagricultureinterfaces
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