About me

I’m about the earth.

I’m the co-founder and CTO of Salo, a conservation analytics & monitoring company, and a PhD student at Stanford University in the Center for Conservation Biology. I map biodiversity and climate change with satellites, which is pretty neat.

Science

I’ve spent my career as a research ecologist. My skills include processing, analyzing & visualizing ecologial data, which I’ve used to help understand the evolutionary, environmental & spatial drivers of species diversity and carbon storage. We’re building Salo to further develop these themes by applying novel technological approaches for mapping biodiversity to large-scale conservation and restoration efforts. We’re seeing tons of opportunities to use global ecological data and science to better manage ecosystems worldwide, which I think is also pretty neat.

Below is a list of the peer-reviewed scientific publications I’ve contributed to as an author. You can access my full cv here.

• [web] [pdf] - 2020 - drivers of long-term shifts in bird community structure
• [web] [pdf] - 2019 - nature’s mental health benefits as an ecosystem service
• [web] [pdf] - 2019 - linking earth observations and ecosystem services
• [web] [pdf] - 2018 - biodiversity monitoring, earth observations and the ecology of scale
• [web] [pdf] - 2018 - mapping tree species with ccb-id
• [web] [pdf] - 2018 - mapping where ecoregions matter
• [web] [pdf] - 2017 - mapping forest traits for biodiversity conservation
• [web] [pdf] - 2017 - scale dependence of trait distributions along an elevation gradient
• [web] [pdf] - 2016 - large-scale geophysical controls on leaf traits
• [web] [pdf] - 2016 - progressive drought stress in california’s forests
• [web] [pdf] - 2016 - tree species abundance in tropical agricultural landscapes
• [web] [pdf] - 2016 - hemiparasite-host ecology in jasper ridge
• [web] [pdf] - 2015 - targeted carbon conservation in peru
• [web] [pdf] - 2015 - regional drivers of forest structure and function in the amazon
• [web] [pdf] - 2015 - quantifying forest traits with imaging spectroscopy
• [web] [pdf] - 2015 - species mapping in bci panama
• [web] [pdf] - 2015 - community mapping in panama
• [web] [pdf] - 2015 - landscape controls on forest biomass in osa costa rica
• [web] [pdf] - 2015 - biogeochemistry forest traits in lowland amazon forests
• [web] [pdf] - 2015 - spatial and structural bias in field studies
• [web] [pdf] - 2014 - the carbon geography of peru
• [web] [pdf] - 2014 - functional and biological diversity of foliar spectra
• [web] [pdf] - 2014 - functional and biological diversity of forest communities in peru
• [web] [pdf] - 2014 - forest structural gradients along elevation gradients
• [web] [pdf] - 2014 - mapping community composition with imaging spectroscopy and lidar
• [web] [pdf] - 2013 - forest canopy gaps in the southern amazon
• [web] [pdf] - 2013 - the carbon geography of panama
• [web] [pdf] - 2013 - joe mascaro likes puns
• [web] [pdf] - 2012 - carnegie airborne observatory two
• [web] [pdf] - 2011 - spectroscopy of canopy chemicals in tropical forests

Software

I lead development of the salo python package as CTO at Salo, which will soon be available as an open source library. I’ve lead one other public-facing software project, ccb-id, and I maintain a personal python library.

• ccb-id - a tree species mapping package for imaging spectroscopy data, which was developed for this data science competition. It ranked first in predictive accuracy among all participants, outperforming methods developed by researcher groups from five other universities.
• aei-py - my personal python package repository. nothin’ special.

Current affiliations

• salo
• stanford biology
• center for conservation biology
• natural capital project

Former affiliations

• carnegie spectranomics project
• carnegie airborne observatory

…are you these Chris Andersons?

• this is not me
• this, too, is not me
• still not me
• i can see why you might think this is me, but this is not me

Contact

• stanford email
• salo email
• github
• twitter
• linkedin
• google scholar
• researchgate
• orcid
• peerj
• academia
• library thing