Christopher Tracey
Director Of Spatial Analysis
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Tracey is a conservation and spatial analysis leader with over two decades of hands-on ecology, field research, and GIS experience, currently serving as Director of Spatial Analysis at NatureServe. He has directed Pennsylvania’s Natural Heritage Program work—producing county inventories, species distribution models, and program standards—bridging biodiversity data with planning, government, nonprofits, and industry. Christopher’s career blends technical spatial data program management with practical invasive species eradication and restoration work, and he regularly translates complex ecological data into actionable planning guidance. A former adjunct professor in landscape architecture, he pairs academic teaching with applied conservation practice, demonstrating a rare mix of communication, methodological rigor, and on-the-ground field expertise.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Conservation Biology, MS, Conservation Biology at Bowling Green State UniversityBS, Ecology and Evolution, BS, Ecology and Evolution at University of Pittsburgh
English
Github Skills (34)
rails-app10
modeling9
r-package7
rails7
python7
ruby-on-rails7
biodiversity6
ruby6
ecology6
taxonomy6
traits5
nomenclature5
api5
census5
arcgis5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PNHP/Regional_SDM
May 2017 - Sep 2018
Methods and collaboration for Species Distribution Modeling among Heritage Programs
Contributions:12 commits, 24 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 4 months
ldaheritagecollaborationnumbaprograms
PNHP/NHA_newTemplate
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:127 commits, 62 PRs, 36 pushes in 3 months
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