Mary Clapp
Acoustic Avian Biologist at Institute For Bird Populations
Lee Vining, California, United States
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Top SchoolMary Clapp is an Acoustic Avian Biologist with eight years of field and research experience studying how wild birds respond to environmental change from community to individual scales. She earned a PhD in Ecology from UC Davis and combines traditional field methods—banding, point counts, nest searches—with cutting-edge tools like passive acoustic monitoring, acoustic big data analysis, and machine learning-informed occupancy models. Her doctoral work in high alpine lake basins compared bird communities around lakes with and without introduced trout, and she has hands-on experience restoring aquatic ecosystems and surveying sensitive alpine and Sierra Nevada habitats. Mary has held postdoctoral and research collaborations with the U.S. Forest Service, California Academy of Sciences, Google-affiliated teams, and now works with the Institute for Bird Populations, translating complex acoustic and isotope datasets into actionable conservation insights. Colleagues describe her as both methodologically rigorous and adventurous in the field—equally at home in backcountry lake basins and behind a Bayesian model.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology at University of California, DavisBA, Biology, English, BA, Biology, English at St. Mary's College of Maryland
Spanish, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mkclapp/bat_explore
Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
mkclapp/seki-birds
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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