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Hire Dr. Sam M.

United States

Aquatic Ecologist & Environmental Data Consultant | Expert in GIS, R, Python, Statistics, and Remote Sensing

Profile Summary

I am an aquatic ecologist and environmental data consultant with expertise in ecological statistics, GIS, remote sensing, scientific programming, and environmental data management. I help researchers, consulting firms, agencies, and nonprofit organizations turn complex or messy environmental data into clear, defensible, and reproducible results. My experience includes aquatic ecology, macroinvertebrate communities, pond and lake monitoring, water quality, vegetation, spatial analysis, remote sensing, machine learning, and multivariate ecology. I work primarily in R, Python, ArcGIS Pro, and QGIS, and I regularly develop automated workflows for data cleaning, statistical analysis, mapping, literature review, and technical reporting. I can assist with: • Environmental and ecological data cleaning • Statistical analysis in R or Python • GIS and spatial analysis • Remote-sensing workflows • GLMMs, GAMs, ordination, and machine learning • Publication-quality figures and maps • Scientific literature reviews and evidence tables • Technical reports, methods, and results interpretation • Reproducible scripts and documented workflows I focus on producing practical deliverables that are accurate, clearly documented, and easy for clients to use after a project is complete. I am especially well suited for interdisciplinary projects that require both ecological subject-matter knowledge and advanced quantitative or geospatial analysis.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Zoology
• ☆ Remote Sensing
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Spatial Statistics
• ☆ Earth & Atmospheric Science
• ☆ Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• ☆ Lakes/Limnology
• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ Applied Ecology
• ☆ Ecological Restoration
• ☆ Conservation Biology
• ☆ Aquatic Ecology
• ☆ Systems Ecology
• ☆ Landscape Ecology
• ☆ Python
• ☆ R

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Creative Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Meta-Research, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Image Analysis, Algorithm Design-ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Minnesota

January 2026 - Present

Education

PhD in Integrative Biology

Oklahoma State Unversity

August 2021 - May 2026

BS in Biology

Northern Michigan University - United States

September 2017 - December 2020

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Sam Miess, Andrew R. Dzialowski (2024). Boring into rock and hard substrates by the midge, Axarus (Diptera; Chironomidae) . Ecology.