Summary
Kyle Bocinsky is a computational anthropologist and Director of Climate Extension with 11 years of experience translating climate science into actionable tools for communities and producers. Based in Missoula, he directs research at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, leads extension work at the Montana Climate Office, and conducts collaborative research with Native American tribes through the Desert Research Institute. He develops reproducible, high-performance software in R, Python, and GRASS to support scalable analyses, visualization, and climate-informed decision-making. His archaeological work spans the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest, the Northwest Coast, and the Tibetan Plateau, blending deep field knowledge with computational methods. Kyle’s work uniquely bridges academic research, tribal partnerships, and operational climate services—turning forecasts and projections into practical adaptation strategies for water and agriculture. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from Washington State University and brings both scholarly rigor and hands-on engineering to interdisciplinary climate resilience projects.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Anthropology, Bachelor’s Degree, Anthropology at University of Notre Dame
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Anthropology at Washington State University