Jessica Rick
Assistant Professor Of Wildlife Conservation & Management
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolJessica Rick is an Assistant Professor of Wildlife Conservation & Management at the University of Arizona with a decade of experience in population and conservation genetics. She combines genomic and ecological approaches to link individual- and population-level gene flow with macroevolutionary patterns, aiming to understand adaptive potential under environmental change. A former NSF postdoctoral fellow at Cornell and PhD-trained ecologist from the University of Wyoming, she brings field-tested skills from roles with the U.S. Forest Service and long-standing teaching experience. An advocate for reproducible research and open science, she designs workshops in R and LaTeX and writes about transparency in ecology—helping translate complex genomic inference into accessible conservation practice.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology at University of WyomingStudy Abroad, Study Abroad at Université de Fribourg/Universität FreiburgMaster of Science (MS), Integrated Biosciences, Master of Science (MS), Integrated Biosciences at University of Minnesota-Duluth
French, German
Github Skills (9)
ncbi4
meta-analysis4
calculation4
ecology3
biodiversity3
migration2
taxonomy2
statistics2
sbml2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jessicarick/msmc2_scripts
Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:58 commits, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
jessicarick/lates-popgen
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:62 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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