Rebecca Cohen
Postdoctoral Associate
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRebecca Cohen is a Postdoctoral Associate in conservation bioacoustics at Cornell Lab of Ornithology, applying machine learning and statistical modeling to marine and aquatic soundscapes to inform population management and habitat protection. With a PhD in Biological Oceanography from UC San Diego and eight years of research experience spanning Scripps Whale Acoustics Lab to Cornell, she translates complex acoustic data into actionable insights for managers and stakeholders. Her work blends species detection, distribution modeling, and analyses of environmental and anthropogenic drivers to support targeted conservation strategies. Before science, Rebecca honed meticulous craft and storytelling as a professional pastry chef, food stylist, and writer—skills that surface in her attention to experimental design, clear communication, and creative problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor’s Degree, Biology, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology at City University of New York-Brooklyn CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Italian Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Italian Language and Literature at The University of Connecticut
English, Italian
Github Skills (14)
graphical-user-interface9
data-visualization9
monitoring8
classification7
traits7
acoustics7
identifier7
earth7
triton6
ecology6
density-estimation5
audio-processing5
machine-learning4
music4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rcohen85/MBARC_HabMod
Feb 2021 - Mar 2022
Code for obtaining and formatting covariate data, constructing habitat models
Contributions:28 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year
habitattraitsformattingidentifier
rcohen85/HabitatModeling
Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:43 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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