Zach Quinlan
Research Biologist at National Science Foundation (NSF)
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolZach Quinlan is an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow and biogeochemist combining coral reef biology, microbial ecology, and data science to quantify how ocean alkalinity enhancement and shifting carbon regimes affect coastal ecosystems and atmospheric CO2. With a 2023 PhD focused on dissolved organic matter bioavailability and practical reef restoration tools, he develops CDR verification methods and 'omic data-processing tools that bridge lab science and policy-relevant monitoring. A former NSF Graduate Research Fellow and technical reviewer for Stripe, Frontier, and Spirals Protocol, he brings nine years of interdisciplinary research experience and active open-science practice. Based in Boulder, he pairs field-focused conservation insight with reproducible computational workflows to make complex ecosystem changes measurable and actionable.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD - Cell and Molecular Biology Dissolved organic matter characterization and enhancing coral reef conservation and restoration, PhD - Cell and Molecular Biology Dissolved organic matter characterization and enhancing coral reef conservation and restoration at San Diego State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Marine Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS Marine Biology at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Github Skills (2)
consensus4
mkdocs3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Zquinlan/acio
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Acio Website static github pages generator for academics.
Contributions:3 releases, 118 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
Zquinlan/DielReefEnrichments
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.