Glenda Yenni
Science Project Manager at Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, IFAS, University of Florida
Logan, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGlenda Yenni is a quantitative ecologist and Science Project Manager with a decade of experience leading long-term field and research programs in academia and government. She combines a PhD in Ecology and an M.S. in Statistics to apply Bayesian, likelihood-based, and multivariate methods to questions of biodiversity, coexistence, and disturbance responses. Her work bridges theoretical models, simulation, and hands-on field techniques—radio telemetry, live-trapping, PIT tagging, vegetation surveys, and database design—to produce robust, management-relevant science. Based in Logan, Utah, she currently manages projects at the University of Florida while maintaining deep expertise in desert small-mammal and macroecological systems. Colleagues rely on her for rigorous experimental design and long-term monitoring frameworks that link complex statistical inference with messy real-world data. Outside the lab she leverages advanced navigation and backcountry skills—horse packing, orienteering, and avalanche travel—which routinely enable research in remote, logistically challenging landscapes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biology, Ecology, PhD, Biology, Ecology at Utah State UniversityB.S., Animal Science, Ecology, B.S., Animal Science, Ecology at University of California, Davis
Spanish
Github Skills (43)
summarize10
ecology10
digital-humanities10
r-package10
r-stats10
open-data10
ckan10
portal10
forecast10
reproducible-research9
shiny9
data-retrieval9
python8
forecasting8
datasets8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gmyenni/PortalData
Feb 2016 - Mar 2025
Official Repo of the Portal Project Data
Contributions:4 PRs, 186 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 2 months
portal
gmyenni/portalPredictions
Nov 2016 - Mar 2021
Using various models to forecast abundances at Portal
Contributions:1 PR, 87 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 5 months
pythonrisk-assessmentomsforecastportal
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