Casey Youngflesh
Assistant Professor at Clemson University
United States
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Top SchoolCasey Youngflesh is an Assistant Professor and quantitative ecologist with a decade of experience studying biodiversity, population biology, and responses to global change. Trained with a PhD in Ecology and Evolution from Stony Brook and a distinguished MSc in Conservation Biology, they blend rigorous field experience—from Galápagos sea lions to California condors—with advanced quantitative and remote-sensing approaches supported by an Earth and Space Science Fellowship at NASA. Before joining Clemson University they held competitive postdoctoral positions at Michigan State and UCLA, translating complex ecological data into predictive insights about population and ecosystem dynamics. Casey runs YoungfleshLab.com, maintains an active research presence on GitHub focused on reproducible quantitative ecology tools, and is known for connecting long-term field studies with scalable modeling to inform conservation under climate change.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Conservation Biology, with distinction, Master's Degree, Conservation Biology, with distinction at University of New South WalesUniversity of California Santa CruzDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Evolution, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (44)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
caseyyoungflesh/Pheno_sensitivity
Aug 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
caseyyoungflesh/hpc_dotfiles
Sep 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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