John Gallo
Deputy Director And Lead Consultant at Regional Resilience Network
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Gallo is a geographer and landscape ecologist with over two decades of applied conservation experience and eight years in senior conservation roles, now serving as Deputy Director and Lead Consultant focused on spatial analyses and wildlife habitat connectivity. He designs and programs conservation planning tools—most notably leading the open-source Linkage Mapper project—and builds spatial decision support systems that translate complex science into actionable strategies for stakeholders and managers. His work blends GIS, Python development, knowledge graphs, and responsible AI to advance habitat connectivity, wildfire resilience, and climate adaptation planning. Skilled at engaging partners and scaling community science, he bridges technical innovation with on-the-ground conservation practice. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, he combines academic depth (PhD in Geography) with long-term NGO leadership, often turning technical code into widely used conservation tools.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Doctoral Research, Post-Doctoral Research at University of Cape TownPh.D. Geography, Ph.D. Geography at UC Santa BarbaraPost-Doctoral Research, Post-Doctoral Research at Nelson Mandela UniversityMendocino High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
ecology9
arcgis9
change-detection8
gis8
geospatial8
open-science8
python7
delphi6
firemonkey6
google-docs6
css5
javascript4
google4
circuit3
connectivity3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
linkagescape/linkagemapper.org
Nov 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
LandAdvisor/Prototype-SN
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 2 years 2 months
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