Cathleen Balantic
Acoustic Biologist at National Park Service
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCathleen Balantic is an acoustic biologist and data scientist with nine years of experience applying bioacoustics, statistical modeling, and software development to conservation and natural resource management. As an Acoustic Biologist with the National Park Service’s Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division, she blends field expertise in avian and amphibian monitoring with scalable tools—authoring the R package AMMonitor and deploying landscape-scale automated monitoring systems. Her background includes postdoctoral climate-refugia research and hands-on teaching of R and modeling to students and federal professionals, demonstrating a knack for turning complex ecological questions into reproducible analyses and applied management insights. Based in Fort Collins, she pairs rigorous PhD-level systems thinking with practical field leadership, from mist-netting and auditory surveys to coordinating multi-site monitoring networks. An uncommon strength is her ability to span the full pipeline—hardware deployments, SQLite-backed data management, detection algorithms, and decision-focused models—making her effective at translating noisy natural soundscapes into actionable conservation data.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Natural Resources Complex Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Natural Resources Complex Systems at University of VermontB.S. Biology, B.S. Biology at Cornell UniversityMaster's degree Natural Resource Management, Master's degree Natural Resource Management at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (12)
analyzer9
audio9
data-processing7
deep-learning7
noise4
acoustics2
gis2
simulation1
databases1
python1
science1
scientific-computing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cbalantic/Birding-GOT
Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
cbalantic/cbalantic.github.io
Mar 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:102 pushes in 6 years 11 months
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