Nick Lyon
Data Scientist
Easton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Lyon is a data scientist with nine years of experience translating ecological research into reproducible, efficient data workflows and tools. Rooted in ecology, he builds end-to-end pipelines—QA scripts, R packages, and Shiny apps—that help large, distributed research networks standardize and share complex datasets. At NCEAS he supported over 100 researchers across 12 working groups and teaches practical tools like Git/GitHub and the tidyverse, blending pedagogy with hands-on engineering. He has led network-wide data management for 200 collaborators in 30+ countries and authored the lterpalettefinder R package to make domain-specific resources accessible to non-R users. Comfortable both leading projects and mentoring students, Nick pairs field experience (insect and vegetation sampling) with strong spatial and SQL-to-R translation skills. Based in Easton, MA, he’s an adaptable communicator who surfaces practical reproducibility improvements that accelerate collaborative science.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Master’s Degree, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Iowa State UniversityHigh School, High School at Torrey Pines High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Biology, Bachelor's Degree, Biology at University of Puget Sound
English
Github Skills (71)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lter/lterwg-caged
Aug 2024 - Jul 2026
LTER working group: Consumer Absence Generates Ecological Dissimilarity (CAGED)
Contributions:201 pushes, 1 branch, 61 comments in 1 year 10 months
lter-sciencesynthesis-working-group
NCEAS/scicomp-workshop-collaborative-coding
Aug 2022 - Aug 2024
OLD Scientific Computing team GitHub workshop
Contributions:6 reviews, 13 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 years 1 month
scientific-computing
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