Jacob Socolar
Director, NBS at BeZero Carbon
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Socolar is a director-level natural climate solutions scientist who blends a PhD in ecology with a decade of quantitative and field-based experience to assess baselines, additionality, and biodiversity co-benefits in natural capital markets. He leads BeZero Carbon’s forestry ratings team, translating rigorous science into transparent, market-ready assessments of carbon offset quality. His background spans academia and industry—from postdoctoral research at Cornell and international work in Norway to data science roles at NCX—giving him deep ecological expertise and practical project experience. Jacob also contributes to open-source geospatial tooling, enhancing Google Earth Engine for R with Google Cloud Storage integrations, reflecting his knack for bridging ecological science and reproducible computational workflows. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he is known for turning complex ecological data into actionable, audit-ready insights for investors and policymakers.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Biology, BA, Biology at Swarthmore CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University
Stackoverflow
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33answers
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Github Skills (12)
google-earth-engine10
google-cloud-storage10
r10
spatial-data9
testing9
probability6
fibonacci6
bayesian6
ggplot6
google-maps6
jags6
distributions6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
r-spatial/rgee
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Google Earth Engine for R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 1 issue in 12 days
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on enhancing the `rgee` package by adding features related to Google Cloud Storage (GCS) interactions. Their commits implemented functionalities like defining and using `predefinedAcl` for GCS uploads, which provides users control over object access. Furthermore, they addressed error handling within the `local_to_gcs` function and improved testing by incorporating tests for uniform access buckets. The user made adjustments to include an informative error message for cloud storage credentials missing.
spatial-analysisgoogle-earth-enginespatial-dataearth-enginerstats
jsocolar/flocker
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
flexible occupancy estimation in R
Contributions:181 commits, 66 PRs, 376 pushes in 1 year 7 months
r-packageoccupancyrstatsestimationflexible
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