Forest Hayes
PhD Graduate Student
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolForest Hayes is a PhD candidate in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University with eight years of field and research experience studying how climate drives mountain goat behavior, movement, and resource selection. His work blends spatial ecology, population demographics, and animal movement to assess connectivity and species responses to warming, with focused field studies in Glacier National Park and long-term analyses of ungulate populations. He has a strong applied background—from telemetry and camera-trap studies to database management and teaching R to undergraduates—allowing him to translate complex data into actionable conservation insights. Notably, his trajectory spans diverse ecosystems from Florida salt marshes to Rocky Mountain alpine zones, giving him a rare comparative perspective on climate-driven habitat change.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State UniversityOrganization for Tropical Studies semester abroad, Environmental Science, Organization for Tropical Studies semester abroad, Environmental Science at Duke UniversityMaster's, Wildlife Biology, Master's, Wildlife Biology at University of MontanaBachelor's Degree, Biology and Environmental Science, Bachelor's Degree, Biology and Environmental Science at New College of Florida
Spanish
Github Skills (17)
aspect8
classifiers8
grass8
rasterize8
topography7
telemetry7
computer-vision6
fragmentation6
detectors5
machine-learning5
pytorch5
vectorization4
deep-learning4
gis4
raster4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
foresthayes/collar
Nov 2018 - Mar 2022
Utilities for exploring telemetry data
Contributions:21 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
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foresthayes/collardata
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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