Cee Nell
Acting Lead, Communications And Engagement Team
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCee Nell is an environmental data scientist and leader with a decade of experience translating complex ecological and hydrological data into clear, shareable visuals and tools. As Acting Lead of the Communications and Engagement Team and head of USGS’s Open Data Science Team, they combine a PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology with hands-on skills in R, D3.js, and Vue.js to build interactive charts, maps, and reproducible code that advance open science. Their career spans academia and government—from postdoctoral research on multi-trophic food webs to leading the USGS Vizlab—demonstrating a rare blend of domain expertise, design sensibility, and engineering craft. Based in San Francisco, Cee is noted for making technical datasets accessible to new audiences and mentoring emerging scientists, a thread highlighted in feature stories and mentoring showcases.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Environmental Science, Biology, Primatology, Environmental Science, Biology, Primatology at Drake UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (69)
water10
vue-framework9
transient9
atmosphere9
cycle9
single-page8
javascript8
hydrology8
meteorology8
ecology8
react8
water-quality8
visualization8
drb8
carbon-emissions8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ceenell/ceenell.github.io
May 2020 - Aug 2022
personal website
Contributions:22 PRs, 64 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactnextjstypescript
collnell/fire-hydro
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
A single-page visual website about the impacts of wildfires in the Western US on water supply and water quality.
Contributions:97 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
reactwildfiresordwesternsupply
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