Kirk Klausmeyer
Director Of Data Science
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk Klausmeyer is Director of Data Science at The Nature Conservancy in California with 11 years of professional data and conservation experience and over a decade of continuous service at TNC. He leads teams that turn complex spatial and temporal datasets into actionable science, notably publishing the first high-resolution map of groundwater-dependent ecosystems in California. Kirk blends rigorous academic training in environmental planning and GIS (UC Berkeley) with hands-on coding in Python and JavaScript to deliver reproducible analyses and visualizations that inform policy and management. He has authored or co-authored 14 peer-reviewed papers, including quantitative work on flow alteration at California stream gages, demonstrating a strong record of translating research into operational tools. Comfortable at the intersection of science, software, and stakeholder engagement, he repeatedly moves projects from data assembly to published science and practical conservation outcomes. An occasionally entrepreneurial technologist, he has also developed mapping apps for iOS and maintained a long-running applied GIS practice across the public and private sectors.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of City Planning Environmental Planning and GIS, Master of City Planning Environmental Planning and GIS at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Arts (BA) Environmental Studies and Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Environmental Studies and Economics at Dartmouth CollegeBelfast Area High School
French
Github Skills (19)
calculator4
google-earth-engine4
gis4
python4
earth-engine4
api-client3
api2
gdal1
viewer1
garmin1
kml1
r1
geotiff1
gpx1
geo1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kklausmeyer/geo_design_tools
Mar 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years 11 months
inventorydesign-teamtncdesign-system
tnc-ca-geo/diversion
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 year 5 months
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