Stephen Wood
Senior Scientist, Agriculture And Food Systems at Yale School of the Environment
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Wood is a senior scientist focused on achieving measurable environmental impact through sustainable agriculture, with a decade of experience bridging soil ecology research and applied conservation practice. He leads agriculture and food-systems work at The Nature Conservancy while holding a research appointment at Yale School of the Environment, bringing academic rigor from a PhD in Ecology alongside hands-on program experience dating to Peace Corps service in Senegal. His background spans field-based soil ecology, interdisciplinary training in ecology and economics, and translating science into scalable conservation strategies for land managers and policy partners. Known for combining quantitative research with practical implementation, he often works at the interface of ecological theory and real-world agricultural systems to drive both productivity and biodiversity outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, PhD, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology at Columbia University in the City of New YorkB.A., Philosophy, B.A., Philosophy at The George Washington UniversityM.E.Sc, Ecology, Economics, M.E.Sc, Ecology, Economics at Yale School of the Environment
French, fulah
Github Skills (66)
journal9
correspondence-analysis9
soil9
twitter8
tsne8
scopus8
coupling8
meta-analysis8
r-package8
citations7
stan7
decomposition7
twitter-api7
jags7
quantitative6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Science-for-Nature-and-People/soilc-ca-rangelands
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
Collection of scripts for the CA rangelands case study of the SNAPP soil carbon working group
Contributions:24 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years
soil-carbonsnappcarbonworking-groupsoil
swood-ecology/AgEvidence
Apr 2020 - Feb 2023
Code for AgEvidence project
Contributions:2 reviews, 39 PRs, 82 pushes in 2 years 10 months
react
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