Ryan Santo
River Program Director at WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST, INC
Hailey, Idaho, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRyan Santo is an experienced fisheries and river restoration leader with over 14 years working across state, federal, and tribal agencies in the Snake and Columbia River basins. As River Program Director at Wood River Land Trust he has led large-scale, multi-stakeholder restoration projects, managed major grants, and developed basin-wide protocols and statistical standards for salmonid monitoring. His background blends hands-on field expertise—from rotary screw traps and PIT tagging to snorkel and spawning surveys—with data stewardship and centralized data system implementation for regional assessment efforts. Ryan’s work uniquely pairs technical population metrics (R, statistical programs, survival estimators) with community-facing outreach and education programs like Trout Friendly, yielding measurable habitat improvements in the Big Wood River basin. Based in Hailey, Idaho, he combines practical hatchery and field operations experience with strategic program development that coordinates NGOs, irrigators, and agencies.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Fisheries and Aquaculture, 3.6, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Fisheries and Aquaculture, 3.6 at State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at CobleskillAssociate of Arts - AA, Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, Associate of Arts - AA, Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at Sussex County Community College
Github Skills (15)
estimate10
workgroup9
extraction9
uncertainty8
summarize8
evaluation7
occupancy7
ad-hoc7
python6
datasets6
monitoring5
dam4
fins4
data-management4
r-package2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ryankinzer/Imnaha_PITtracking
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
a set of R scripts to load tag observations from PTAGIS, track tagged fish throughout the Imnaha River and to summarize results
Contributions:10 PRs, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
riverr-scriptssummarizeobservationsfish
ryankinzer/PITcleanr
Oct 2017 - Jan 2024
Clean up PIT tag capture histories for use by DABOM
Contributions:46 pushes, 34 branches in 6 years 3 months
pythonpitclean
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.