Jamie Kass
Associate Professor
Sendai, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolJamie Kass is an Associate Professor and director of the Macroecology Lab at Tohoku University with 13 years of experience developing biodiversity models, mapping species’ ranges, and forecasting ecological responses to global change. Trained as a PhD biologist with a background in GIS and conservation (Duke MEM), Jamie blends fieldwork and spatial software development to estimate ecosystem function and services across Japanese and international systems. Their work spans predictive niche modeling, biogeography, and tool-building—translating complex climate and trophic interactions into actionable maps and code. Notably, Jamie’s career moves from hands-on field studies of threatened carnivores to publishing computational tools for macroecology, reflecting a rare combination of empirical ecology and reproducible software practice.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MEM, Conservation Science and Policy, MEM, Conservation Science and Policy at Duke UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Arts (BA), Biology, General; English, Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Arts (BA), Biology, General; English at SUNY BinghamtonBronx High School of ScienceDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology at City University of New York City College
Japanese, English
Github Skills (78)
ecology10
power-systems10
spatial10
markdown10
r10
missing-data10
r-package10
meta-analysis10
biodiversity10
modeling-tool10
agent-based-modeling10
sbml10
jekyll10
traits10
modeling10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jamiemkass/ENMeval
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
R package for automated runs and evaluations of ecological niche models.
Contributions:15 releases, 493 commits, 17 PRs in 8 years
rr-package
jamiemkass/jamiemkass.github.io
Dec 2020 - Apr 2026
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:113 pushes in 5 years 4 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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