An environmental data science study group at UCSB and beyond
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What We Do

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Skill Sharing

Share your favorite coding skills and tools with your friends and colleagues in friendly, no-pressure work-alongs.

Co-Working

Get together to work on your coding projects, help each other out and share your work.

Community Building

Meet new people in your field, organization or community - and find out what we can do when we work together.

Upcoming Sessions

Until in-person instruction is resumed, we'll host sessions via Zoom

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We use GitHub to get coding help, talk about events and share files. Join us there!

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Who We Are

We're environmental scientists, students and researchers who want to work and learn together! We have over 100 members and counting. Here are members who have led sessions:

Jamie Montgomery

National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, UCSB

Interests:
  •  Marine Data Science

Julie Stewart Lowndes

National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, UCSB

Interests:
  •  Marine Data Science

Ben Best

University of California, Santa Barbara

Casey O'Hara

National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, UCSB

Interests:
  •  Spatial Analysis
  •  Marine Conservation

Melanie Frazier

National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, UCSB

Remi Daigle

Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Interests:
  •  Marine Ecology
  •  Spatial Planning/GIS

Tyler Clavelle

Sustainable Fisheries Group, UCSB

Dan Ovando

Sustainable Fisheries Group, UCSB

Grant McDermott

Department of Economics, University of Oregon

Interests:
  •  Economics
  •  Econometrics
  •  Data Science

Juan Mayorga

Sustainable Fisheries Group, UCSB and National Geographic Pristine Seas

Interests:
  •  Marine Data Science
  •  Conservation

Alexandra Smith

University of California Santa Barbara

Interests:
  •  Marine Data Science
  •  Fisheries Assessment

Alexa Fredston-Hermann

Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UCSB

Interests:
  •  Marine Ecology
  •  Climate Change
  •  Data Science

Allison Horst

Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UCSB

Interests:
  •  Statistics
  •  Data Visualization
  •  Data Science

Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez

Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UCSB

Interests:
  •  Marine Data Science
  •  Marine Conservation

Ryan Avery

Geography Department, UCSB

Interests:
  •  vegetation remote sensing
  •  machine learning
  •  ecohydrological modeling of water limited agriculture & ecosystems

Noah Spahn

Earth Research Institute

Interests:
  •  Software Engineering applied to advance Earth Sciences

Jeanette Clark

National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis

Interests:
  •  reproducible research
  •  open data

Mike Johnson

Geography Department, UCSB / NOAA-Affiliate

Interests:
  •  Hydrologic Modelling Hydrofabrics
  •  Environmental Data
  •  Raster/Vector data models

Kat Millage

Environmental Market Solutions Lab (emLab), UCSB

Interests:
  •  marine data science
  •  marine ecology

Tracey Mangin

Environmental Market Solutions Lab (emLab), UCSB

Interests:
  •  data science
  •  sandwiches

Measrainsey Meng

Environmental Market Solutions Lab (emLab) & Clean Energy Transformation Lab (CETlab), UCSB

Interests:
  •  energy systems
  •  data science

Anna Abelman

Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UCSB

Interests:
  •  Marine Conservation
  •  Spatial Analysis

Marcela Suárez

Geography Department, UCSB

Interests:
  •  Spatial Data Science
  •  Maps

Rachel Rhodes

Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UCSB

Interests:
  •  Marine Data Science
  •  Spatial Analysis
  •  Storytelling