Hello GitHub community! My name is Ray, and I am a code-loving, nature enthusiast who works on coastal conservation projects along the west coast of the US. In recent years, I have worked with the Northwest Fisheries Science Center at NOAA to model salmon habitat restoration costs in the Puget Sound of Washington state. I also worked as a research lead with The Nature Conservancy to study invasive species responses to endemic Channel Islands predators to strengthen island biosecurity protocols. I mostly work in R running statistical and machine learning models, geospatial analysis, and Shiny app development. I enjoy surfing, rock climbing, yoga, and spearfishing in my free time. Send me an email or LinkedIn invite if you want to connect!

Website https://ramhunte.github.io/

Email rmhunter999@gmail.com

LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/raymond-hunter

• Data Manager – Masters Group Project with NOAA (3/23-6/24)
• Teaching Assistant – UCSB (9/22-6/24)
• Biosecurity Intern – TNC (6/23-9-23)
• Data Analyst – Yoga Soup (9/23-pres.)
• Biologist – Mountain View Biological Consulting (2/21–6/21)
• Lab Technician – Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (1/21–6/22)

• Masters in Environmental Science and Management (2024); Bren School at UC Santa Barbara
• B.S.in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2020); UC Santa Cruz
• B.A. in Environmental Studies(2020); UC Santa Cruz

Data Science and Management R/RStudio, Python, Git/GitHub, SQL, Bash, Excel, Google Drive

Remote Sensing & Geospatial Analysis R, QGIS, Python and Google Earth Engine

Machine Learning R, Python, supervised/unsupervised, validation, training/testing, optimization, feature engineering, model evaluation

Data Visualization Shiny app/dashboard, ggplot, Leaflet, Quarto, RMarkown, CSS, HTML, Javascript, Tableau