Jeff Atkins
Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Atkins is an ecosystem ecologist and Research Assistant Professor with 11 years of experience combining remote sensing, biogeochemistry, forest ecology, spatial analysis, and statistical computing to study carbon and watershed dynamics in heterogeneous, high-altitude landscapes. Based in Charlottesville and formerly a research biologist with the USDA Forest Service, he bridges academic research and applied natural-resource science, translating field studies like the Shenandoah headwater biogeochemical project into scalable spatial and modeling insights. He has a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia and a track record of integrating large spatial datasets and reproducible scientific computing into ecological inference. Colleagues rely on him for rigorous analysis of forest carbon processes and for connecting multidisciplinary teams across fieldwork, remote sensing, and statistical methods.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Literature at Western Carolina UniversityUniversity of North Carolina AshevilleDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Sciences at University of Virginia
Github Skills (27)
r-package10
r9
canopy7
leaf7
angle7
waffle-charts7
scanning6
data-visualization5
anonymous5
open-science4
python4
noaa4
bayesian3
neon3
noaa-data3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FoRTExperiment/fortedata
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
FoRTE project data
Contributions:3 releases, 7 reviews, 188 commits in 3 years 11 months
forte
atkinsjeff/csc_disturbance
May 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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