Sarah Jaffe
Graduate Student Researcher (Environmental Studies And GIS)
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSarah Jaffe is a graduate student researcher in environmental studies and GIS with eight years of experience translating field ecology into reproducible geospatial science. She develops workflows, maps, and communication tools that bridge researchers, resource managers, and stakeholders to support human-wildlife conflict planning and climate adaptation. Her background managing long-term ecological research in Southeast Asian rainforests and administering SQL databases informs a rare combination of field logistics, data QA/QC, and spatial analysis. At CIRES she earned a graduate research award for creating collaborative tools and currently co-chairs a graduate/postdoc association that fosters multidisciplinary community and skills-building. She also brings practical IT and teaching experience from the University of Colorado, where she built open-source web platforms and training materials to make spatial data more accessible. Sarah is seeking a role that integrates her passion for reproducible geospatial research with collaborative science and decision-focused communication.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Environmental Studies, PhD, Environmental Studies at University of Colorado BoulderMaster of Science - MS, Primate Conservation, Master of Science - MS, Primate Conservation at Oxford Brookes UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Primate Behavior & Ecology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Primate Behavior & Ecology at Central Washington University
Github Skills (6)
python5
collaboration4
jupyter-notebook3
neon3
data-science3
modeling3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sarahmjaffe/georeferencing-mapping-aerial-images
May 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
sarahmjaffe/spring-2020-course-notebooks
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
this repo contains notebooks that were used in class each week. it will sync with the hub.
Contributions:14 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 month
pythonsyncjupyter-notebookin-classnotebooks
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