Scott Nordstrom
Postdoctoral Researcher at Portland State University
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Nordstrom is a statistical demographer and data scientist with nine years of experience applying modeling, field observation, and large-scale data analysis to population ecology and the demography of flowering plants. He holds a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and blends simulation and analytical modeling with hands-on fieldwork—having led citizen-science teams and mentored students on long-term plant population projects. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at Portland State University's Population Research Center, his work connects theoretical demography with empirical datasets to address plant population dynamics and evolutionary questions. With a background in computational operations research and applied mathematics, he brings strong quantitative rigor and teaching experience to interdisciplinary research teams. An underappreciated strength is his ability to translate complex demographic models into tractable analyses for conservation-relevant decision making.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computational Operations Research, Master of Science (M.S.), Computational Operations Research at The College of William & Mary in VirginiaPhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (10)
rescue10
genetic10
julia4
singer2
eda2
metadata2
python2
data-integrity2
data-profiling1
data-validation1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
melbourne-lab/canopy_flowering
May 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:462 commits, 188 pushes in 2 years 4 months
melbourne-lab/evo_rescue_ndd_erosion
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Evolutionary rescue, density dependence, genetic erosion, and the extinction vortex.
Contributions:381 commits, 13 PRs, 202 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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