Lucas Johnson
Data Scientist
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Johnson is a data scientist and geographer specializing in geospatial data science with 11 years of experience applying statistics, GIS, and coding (R/Python) to forest carbon and biomass mapping. Currently at Arête Glacier Initiative after a postdoc with Oregon State and the USFS, he investigated how forest-driven surface albedo changes influence climate-focused forest management and operationalized carbon reporting tools using NASA GEDI data. His PhD work produced open-data products that underpinned New York State’s Forest Carbon Assessment, demonstrating an ability to translate research into actionable, management-scale datasets. Comfortable bridging academic research and operational tool development, he combines strong spatial data wrangling skills with practical forest ecology insight to deliver decision-ready analytics.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental Science at State University of New York College of Environmental Science and ForestryBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Tufts University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
r-package10
las10
lidar-data10
als10
lidar10
r9
forestry9
modis9
raster9
landsat9
google-earth-engine9
indices9
point-cloud9
sentinel9
spatial9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lucas-johnson/lucaskjohnson
Dec 2021 - Mar 2026
Contributions:76 pushes in 4 years 3 months
codeforbtv/court-calendars
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:141 commits, 110 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
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