Chelsea Nagy
Deputy Director at ESIIL (Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab)
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolChelsea Nagy is an ecosystem ecologist and environmental data scientist with nine years of experience translating open field, monitoring, and satellite data into actionable insights on forest structure, carbon storage, and resilience. As Deputy Director of ESIIL and former Interim Director of Earth Lab at University of Colorado Boulder, she blends research leadership with practitioner engagement to design natural climate solutions and inform resource management. Her current work probes how invasive plants and wildfire reshape North Central U.S. forests and how structural diversity confers biotic resistance at national scales. Trained with a PhD from Brown and a strong background in biogeochemistry, fire ecology, and land-use change, she pairs rigorous ecological science with data integration skills to drive impact. Colocated in Boulder, she is known for bridging academic research and on-the-ground management networks to accelerate resilient, climate-smart forest stewardship.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown UniversityBachelors, Environmental Science, Bachelors, Environmental Science at Miami UniversityMasters, Forestry, Masters, Forestry at Auburn University
Github Skills (2)
python4
earth1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nagyrc/C_fire_invasives
May 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 799 pushes in 2 years 4 months
nagyrc/forest_structural_diversity
Oct 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 273 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
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