Sara Miller
Biometrician IV at Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Juneau, Alaska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Miller is a Biometrician IV with over a decade of experience applying advanced quantitative methods to salmon and herring management for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. She holds a PhD in Fisheries from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has led escapement goal analyses and preseason, inseason, and postseason abundance assessments for transboundary and Southeast Alaska stocks using R and AD Model Builder. Sara champions reproducible, versioned workflows—spearheading the Commercial Fisheries GitHub site to make group analyses discoverable and auditable—and has defended work through rigorous peer review processes like CSAS. Her collaborative work on international technical committees has produced bilaterally agreed escapement goals, and she earned the 2023 Director’s Award for exceptional statistical mastery and data organizational skill. An understated strength is her ability to translate complex statistical results into operational plans that guide field decisions across jurisdictions.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management at University of Alaska FairbanksBachelor of Arts - BA, Environmental Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (2)
fishing2
r-package2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fssem1/NSRAA-coho
Apr 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
commfish/Chilkat_Sockeye
Jul 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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