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sci-youngblood/README.md

Morgan Youngblood

Marine Scientist & Geospatial Analyst — Hilo, Hawaiʻi

I build spatial analysis pipelines and remote sensing applications for marine and coastal science. My work sits at the intersection of field ecology, acoustic telemetry, and cloud-native geospatial tools.


🔬 Research

Predator Movement & Habitat Fidelity — 11-year acoustic telemetry study of 7 marine predator species across the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. 277 transmitters, 13 receivers, residency index modeling.

Ecological Forecasting — Multivariate GLM/GAM pipeline modeling fish community structure responses to SST, wind, chlorophyll, and kelp biomass forcing in the California Current. Models integrated with GFDL-ESM2M projections through 2100.

Coastal Water Quality — Spatiotemporal FIB mapping across West Hawaiʻi identifying high-risk cesspool infrastructure zones. Published findings supported County of Hawaiʻi / DLNR mitigation project.


🛠 Stack

Domain Tools
Languages R, Python
Spatial sf, terra, ArcGIS Pro, Google Earth Engine
Modeling mgcv, gamm4, FSSgam, MuMIn
Telemetry Innovasea VR2Tx/VR2AR, VUE
Data NetCDF, GeoTIFF, Shapefiles, ERDDAP, MODIS, Landsat

🌊 Pinned Projects

  • SCB_HabitatSuitability — Deployed GEE app: marine habitat suitability index for the Southern California Bight
  • WCO_Tag_Analysis — CINMS predator telemetry analysis pipeline
  • PIRAT_GEE — Mapping the Pacific Islands Region Acoustic Telemetry receiver network across Hawai'i
  • thesis — California Current ecological forecasting under climate variability

📍 Hilo, Hawaiʻi  |  📧 [email protected]  |  LinkedIn

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  1. SCB_HabitatSuitability SCB_HabitatSuitability Public

    Interactive marine habitat suitability app for the Southern California Bight built in Google Earth Engine — SST, chlorophyll-a, and bathymetry fusion with fuzzy logic index

    JavaScript

  2. WCO_Tag_Analysis WCO_Tag_Analysis Public

    11-year acoustic telemetry analysis of marine predator movement and residency across the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary — 277 transmitters, 7 species

    HTML

  3. PIRAT_GEE PIRAT_GEE Public

    Interactive GEE app mapping 235 acoustic telemetry receivers across the Hawaiian Archipelago — east Hawaiʻi monitoring gap analysis

    JavaScript

  4. thesis thesis Public

    Multivariate GLM/GAM pipeline modeling fish community structure responses to SST, wind, chlorophyll, and kelp biomass forcing in the California Current ecosystem

    R