Laura Dee
Associate Professor
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Dee is an associate professor and sustainability scientist with nine years of experience translating ecosystem science into actionable solutions for biodiversity conservation and climate adaptation. She leads an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder, combining impact evaluation (causal inference), decision analysis, and ecosystem science to co-design locally tailored interventions with end-users and vulnerable communities. Her work bridges rigorous quantitative methods and on-the-ground partnership-building, reflecting a career that moved from marine biology fieldwork to a PhD in ecology and an MA in economics. Pragmatic and solutions-oriented, she frequently serves as a convener between scientists, managers, and policy makers to ensure research is both scientifically robust and practically useful.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Marine Biology, BS, Marine Biology at Brown UniversityPhD, Ecology & Natural Resource Management, PhD, Ecology & Natural Resource Management at UC Santa BarbaraChoate Rosemary HallMA, Economics, MA, Economics at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (4)
traits5
ecology4
biodiversity4
scaling1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LauraDee/NutNetCausalinf
Jul 2021 - Feb 2023
Files associated with causal inference in NutNet analyses (Dee, Ferraro, Severen, et al)
Contributions:1 release, 32 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 7 months
LauraDee/EcologyCausalInference
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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