Jim Fox
Adjunct Instructor, Natural Resources, Cascades Campus
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Fox is a seasoned natural resources policy expert and educator with over 25 years shaping conservation, outdoor recreation, and farmland preservation policy at city, county, and state levels. With a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Washington and faculty experience at UW and Caltech, he blends rigorous scientific training with practical policy design and legislative success. As Policy Director for Washington’s Recreation and Conservation Office he led creation of grant programs for habitat and salmon recovery and repeatedly translated complex science into effective legislation. He now runs a consulting practice and teaches multidisciplinary natural resources courses at Oregon State University–Cascades, bringing real-world policy case studies into the classroom. Known for convening cross-agency initiatives, he frequently bridges ecological, economic, and social perspectives to build durable conservation strategies.
22 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D., Physiology and Biophysics at University of WashingtonNorthwestern University
Github Skills (26)
classfile10
command-line-tool8
rest8
shibboleth8
webapi7
openapi7
oas6
rest-api5
proxy5
saml4
idp4
aws4
authentication4
oauth4
api3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
UWIT-IAM/iam-messaging-c
May 2015 - Mar 2021
C library for UW-IAM AWS messaging.
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 10 months
messaging-awsc-libraryiamaws-iammessaging
UWIT-IAM/UWThesis
Nov 2014 - May 2021
Class file for University of Washington thesis formatting with LaTeX.
Contributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 6 years 7 months
classfile
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