Sam Woodman
Biologist at NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Woodman is a biologist with 11 years of experience combining fieldwork and computational science to advance marine conservation, currently contracting at NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center. A Harvey Mudd graduate in Mathematical and Computational Biology, he builds R packages and tools (including a GUI-enabled ensemble SDM package) used for marine mammal assessments and survey data processing. His work spans remote shipboard and aerial surveys, spatial analysis, Bayesian and genetic analyses, and practical software (e.g., CruzPlot) that has supported high-stakes field programs like vaquita surveys. Sam’s niche is translating messy field data into reproducible analyses and decision-ready spatial products to inform entanglement risk and conservation management. Based in San Diego, he blends strong coding chops with hands-on natural history experience, and has a track record of teaching himself new tools (R Shiny) to deliver operational research software.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Senior, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Senior at Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (46)
explore10
user-friendly9
data-files9
r-package9
spatial9
oceanography8
proj8
r8
netcdf7
plot7
geos7
maps7
ocean7
computer-vision6
classification-model6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
smwoodman/gdm
Sep 2021 - Feb 2024
Universal data model for profiling ocean gliders
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 6 months
oceanprofilingdata-model
SWFSC/eSDM-data
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 24 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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