Colin Brooks
Principal - Geospatial Department
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Brooks is a Senior Research Scientist and Transportation Practice Area Leader with two decades of experience translating remote sensing and GIS research into operational tools for environmental and transportation applications. He has led MTRI’s Environmental Sciences Lab and serves as a Principal Investigator at MTRI Inc., shepherding commercial deployment of advanced remote sensing solutions. Earlier roles at UC Berkeley, USDA Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy underpin deep domain expertise in oak woodland conservation, watershed impacts, invasive species mapping, and nearshore Great Lakes ecology. Colin blends field-based ecological insight with technical skills in UAVs, geospatial analytics, and decision support system development, enabling practical solutions from proposal through application development. He holds an MEM from Duke and pursued a PhD at Michigan Tech, reflecting a commitment to rigorous research paired with applied outcomes. Colleagues would note his uncommon ability to bridge lab management and hands-on mapping work while driving technology transfer into real-world use.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology at Michigan Technological UniversityMEM, Environmental Management - Resource Ecology, MEM, Environmental Management - Resource Ecology at Duke UniversityB.S., Pre-Forestry, B.S., Pre-Forestry at Lenoir-Rhyne University
Github Skills (7)
recipe5
backend4
nodejs3
mongodb3
docker2
cucumber1
angular1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Cryptonok/TeamCyber
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:53 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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HuskyGameDev/2017-team8
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 76 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
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