Highlights from Quentin’s CV
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Professional experience
- October 2021 - present: Applied consulting statistician, Southeast Area, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
- Located on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina
- September 2019 - October 2021: Data scientist, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
- Assistant Research Scientist (beginning August 2020)
- August 2018 - August 2020: Postdoctoral fellow, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
- Mentor: Dr. Mary K. Muth (RTI International)
- May 2016 - July 2018: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University
- Advisor: Dr. Phoebe Zarnetske
Education
- Ph.D. in Ecology, University of Tennessee, 2016
- Advisor: Dr. Nathan Sanders
- B.S. in Environmental Science, University of North Carolina, 2009
- Undergraduate research in the lab of Dr. Patricia Gensel
Skills
- Programming languages
- R (fluent)
- Python (proficient)
- Julia (beginner)
- Statistical modeling
- Bayesian modeling with Stan, JAGS, and brms
- Spatial statistics using R
- Software
- High-performance parallel computing in Unix environment
- Bash scripting
- git and GitHub for version control and collaborations
- RMarkdown for communicating results
- GDAL for spatial data processing
- Natural languages
- English (native)
- German (fluent)
- Spanish (proficient)
Publications
See the Publications page.
Talks
See the Talks page.
Data science lessons and blog posts
- Lessons
- Blog posts
- Making a fifty-state USA map, 2021 edition
- Making free maps with R, ggspatial, and Mapbox
- Using R data.table to speed up my data science
- How open reproducible methods benefit the research community: a shiny story
- The carbon footprint of R code, and how to reduce it
- Resources to help you learn GitHub Pages
- Tips for a smooth R(Studio) workflow and reproducible R code
- How do I resolve merge conflicts in git/GitHub/GitLab?
- Using the rslurm package to run code in parallel
- ggplot tricks not to forget about
Teaching and mentoring
- Co-Instructor, SESYNC
- 2021 Geospatial Data Analysis workshop
- 2020 and 2021 Computational Summer Institutes (weeklong virtual applied socio-environmental data science course)
- 2020 Data Science “whirlwind tour” for postdocs
- Co-Instructor, Michigan State University
- Metacommunity Ecology (graduate course)
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Tennessee (eight semesters)
- Models in Biology
- Conservation Biology
- General Ecology
- Introduction to Biodiversity
- Improving undergraduate biology education, University of Tennessee
- Research assistantship creating recommendations to improve training and professional development for graduate teaching assistants
- Member of panel developing and reforming curriculum of undergraduate introductory biology courses
- Guest lectures and workshops
- Designed and led workshop for postdocs on GitHub best practices
- Designed and led undergraduate workshops on R, statistics, and data visualization
- Guest lectures on conservation biology, nutrient cycling, and climate change
- Mentoring experience
- Mentored student team in University of Maryland Data Challenge; team won grand prize in a 75-team competition
- Remotely mentored two Bryn Mawr College undergraduates on an R package development project, funded by NSF Macrosystems Biology grant
- Mentored 4 undergraduates through Summer Research Opportunities Program and High Performance Computing Center at MSU
- Mentored 8 undergraduates through Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and NSF REU programs
Service, volunteering, and outreach
- Peer reviewer for ROpenSci
- Peer reviewer of >50 different manuscripts in 33 different journals
- Review panelist, SESYNC immersion postdoctoral fellowship program
- Coordinator of Darwin Day 2014 at the University of Tennessee
- Gave public research talks on climate change and on citizen science
- Volunteered at kids’ science education events in TN, CO, and NC