Donald Robinson
Assoc. Sr. Systems Ecologist at ESSA Technologies Ltd
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDonald Robinson is an Associate Senior Systems Ecologist based in Vancouver with 13 years of recent experience and over three decades of quantitative ecological modeling expertise. He specializes in mathematical ecology, simulation, statistics, and numerical methods to solve terrestrial and aquatic natural resource management problems, and has a long-standing interest in spatial and cross-scale modeling. At ESSA Technologies he has led development of open-source and API-enabled tools—such as an open version of the Forest Vegetation Simulator—and contributed to cloud-based optimization approaches for complex water management in the Sacramento basin. Trained in ecology and animal physiology at Cornell and UBC, he blends deep theoretical knowledge with practical software and applied decision-support systems. Notably, he combines rigorous uncertainty analysis with multidisciplinary collaboration to translate complex models into usable management tools.
13 years of coding experience
M.Sc., Animal Physiology, M.Sc., Animal Physiology at The University of British ColumbiaPhD program, Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology, PhD program, Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology at Cornell University
English
Github Skills (14)
simulation10
ecology10
forestry10
placement10
agent-based-modeling10
ignition10
yield10
background-image10
bug-reporting10
modeling-tool10
modeling10
sat10
vdm9
garden7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
USDAForestService/ForestVegetationSimulator
Aug 2012 - Nov 2022
Forest Vegetation Simulation (FVS) - Growth and Yield Modeling software
Contributions:235 commits, 4 pushes, 2 comments in 10 years 4 months
ignitionagent-based-modelingbug-reportingsatplacement
DonRobinsonESSA/ForestVegetationSimulator
May 2023 - May 2023
Forest Vegetation Simulation (FVS) - Growth and Yield Modeling software
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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