Leo Salas
Quantitative Ecologist
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Salas is a quantitative ecologist with 11 years of experience applying rigorous statistical and computational methods to wildlife conservation and ecological research. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology from UMass Amherst with deep expertise in Bayesian and frequentist approaches, simulation of populations and food webs, and geospatial analysis. At PRBO Conservation Science he has translated large, disparate datasets on birds and mammals into actionable conservation insights while working across Windows and Linux environments and R-based workflows. He is experienced in designing and implementing simulation models that reveal emergent dynamics in complex ecosystems and has a knack for turning noisy field data into robust inference. Colleagues value his blend of field-informed intuition and quantitative rigor, and his work often bridges theory and practical conservation outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
UMass AmherstUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (7)
meta-analysis8
biodiversity7
ecology7
seal6
ice4
codebase4
python4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pointblue/AshMeadows
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:22 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
pointblue/anthropocene
Jun 2021 - Apr 2024
Notebooks for analysis of Anthropocene impacts in the Ross Sea Adelie and Weddell Seal populations, with Virginia Morandini and David Ainley.
Contributions:1 release, 22 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 11 months
pythonrossanthropocenebiodiversityvirginia
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