Ian Breckheimer
Adjunct Professor at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL)
Crested Butte, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolIan Breckheimer is an ecologist and educator with 12 years of experience translating spatial data and field research into actionable guidance for social and ecological adaptation to environmental change. Based in Crested Butte, Colorado, he combines roles as an adjunct professor and Principal Research Scientist at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, bridging classroom teaching with long-term, place-based research. His work spans climate and snow-melt forecasting, gridded climate products, GIS tool development, and large-scale data synthesis that informs conservation and management. Trained with a PhD in Biology and postdoctoral experience at Harvard, he routinely moves between rigorous quantitative methods and hands-on stewardship of field sites. Ian’s uncommon strength is pairing technical spatial-ecology skills with practical outreach—bringing nature to people and integrating stakeholder needs into scientific products.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Biology, PhD Biology at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology and Environmental Studies, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biology and Environmental Studies at Guilford CollegePost Doctoral Fellowship, Post Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard UniversityMS Landscape Ecology and Remote Sensing, MS Landscape Ecology and Remote Sensing at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (6)
jupyter-book5
deploying4
jupyter-notebook3
jupyterlab3
jupyter2
infrastructure2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ibreckhe/ibreckhe.github.io
Mar 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:121 pushes in 3 years 6 months
ibreckhe/MORA_microclimate
Jan 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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