Jacoby Baker
Research Technician at MBARI
Marina, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacoby Baker is an early-career marine scientist and research technician with eight years of hands-on experience combining molecular lab work and bioinformatics to monitor coastal ecosystems. Based at MBARI in Marina, CA, he leads eDNA data acquisition, processing, and visualization, has improved lab throughput (~400%), and serves as chief scientist on research cruises. Skilled in Python and R, he builds and modifies analysis pipelines, links diverse data types, and mentors interns while coordinating multi-institutional collaborations with NOAA, Point Blue, and PISCO. Jacoby excels at turning complex sequence datasets into clear, publication-ready figures and is actively growing his data science and programming toolkit to scale ecological insights.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Marine Science, Master of Science - MS, Marine Science at California State University, Monterey Bay
Github Skills (11)
r-package6
biodiversity5
traits5
ecology4
biology4
api4
taxonomy4
nomenclature3
r3
toolbelt2
ckan2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MBARI-BOG/MBON-Protocols
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:273 commits, 257 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
bake1349/hello-world
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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