Catherine Hulshof
Associate Professor
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolCatherine Hulshof is an Associate Professor and biodiversity data scientist based in Richmond, Virginia, who studies how tropical and temperate forests are reorganizing under climate change. With over a decade of research and academic experience spanning faculty positions at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Puerto Rico, plus postdoctoral work at UC Davis, she combines field ecology with quantitative approaches from her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She maintains active collaborations with the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History and served as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in 2024, reflecting strong international and museum-linked research ties. Catherine’s work bridges long-term ecological data, modeling, and conservation relevance, and she is known for translating complex global-change dynamics into actionable biodiversity insights.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBA, Biology, Chemistry, BA, Biology, Chemistry at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
ecology9
stable8
data-wrangling8
r8
r-package7
data-visualisation7
data-visualization6
noaa6
python6
visualization6
collaboration5
noaa-data5
collections5
data-science5
carbon-emissions4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
catherinehulshof/R-ecology-lesson
Apr 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
marchpreparationdata-carpentrynotebookfrozen
catherinehulshof/Fall2020-biology
Aug 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 86 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.