Rob Schick
Senior Scientist at SOUTHALL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRob Schick is a quantitative ecologist and senior scientist with over two decades of experience building data-driven models to decode animal behavior, movement, and health in high-stakes, low-observability environments. He specializes in integrating spatial, acoustic, and biological datasets to assess marine mammal responses to stressors such as Navy sonar, applying advanced statistical tools including Bayesian methods, GAMs, and state-space models. Based in Durham and active at Southall Environmental Associates and Duke University, he combines academic rigor from a PhD in Ecology with practical operational experience across NOAA, academia, and conservation organizations. His work is notable for turning sparse, noisy observations into actionable inference for management and policy, and for bridging geospatial analysis with ecological physiology in ways that reveal subtle changes in population health.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Zoology/Animal Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Zoology/Animal Biology at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology at Duke University
Github Skills (22)
computational-biology8
systems-biology8
biology6
reproducible-science6
science5
version-control5
open-science5
reproducible-research5
r-package2
animation2
visualization2
environmental2
spatial2
gps1
vector-tiles1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robschick/tangled
Dec 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 tag in 5 years 5 months
robschick/lessonCode
Aug 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:79 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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