Nan Pond
VP, Nature-Based Research And Monitoring
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNan Pond is a VP of Nature-Based Research and Monitoring with nine years of applied data science and forest biometrics experience, currently leading nature-based science at Rubicon Carbon. She blends R programming, spatial analysis, and carbon accounting expertise to translate forest inventory and remote-sensing data into robust monitoring and certification practices. Her career moves from field-based silviculture and Peace Corps forestry extension to academic research and industry leadership reflect a rare combination of hands-on forest measurement and advanced statistical modeling. As an adjunct professor and former chief biometrician, she excels at building reproducible workflows for forest and carbon data and communicating technical methods to practitioners and certifiers. Based in Albuquerque, she focuses on making forestry data both scientifically rigorous and operationally useful for landscape-scale carbon programs.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Forest Biometrics; Silviculture, Ph.D., Forest Biometrics; Silviculture at Michigan Technological UniversityKingston High SchoolB.S., Forest and Natural Resources Management; Environmental and Forest Biology, B.S., Forest and Natural Resources Management; Environmental and Forest Biology at State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
English, bemba
Github Skills (5)
sampling5
census5
baduk4
plot4
statistics3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ncx-co/forestry_source
Mar 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
ncx-co/backcaster
Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 10 months
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