Richard Magala

I am a postdoctoral associate with the Bioeconomy Institute at Iowa State University. I am interested in landscape ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem Services, and modelling in all these aspects. However, I am interested in understanding ecosystem service trade-offs and impacts of human activities on the ecosystem service production. I work on PEWI as a project manager and lead the update of PEWI science modules. I am investigating the impacts of different land uses on climate change mitigation and pollination ecosystem services. I have a proven work record and great experience in herpetological research, environmental impact assessments, audits, geospatial data processing and teaching. I love working in a team but am also able to work and think independently.

I have support skills in R programming, computer-assisted interview programming, text mining with Python, data wrangling, big data processing and collation and GIS.