Margaret Kosmala

Margaret Kosmala

Senior Data Scientist at CiBO Technologies
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Margaret Kosmala (she/her/hers) is a global change ecologist with a focus on temporal dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems at local to continental scales. She creates and uses longterm and broad-scale datasets to answer questions about how human-driven environmental change affects plants and animals. In order to generate and process these large data sets, she creates and runs online citizen science projects, practice crowdsourcing, run experiments, employ data management techniques, and design and implement advanced statistical and computational models. She uses quantitative methods to harness the power of such sensors and computational power, in order to answer nationally and globally pressing challenges centered around biodiversity, ecosystem function and resilience, and sustainability. Margaret co-runs Snapshot Serengeti, a citizen science project in which volunteers help us identify African animals in images taken by camera traps in Serengeti National Park. She holds a Ph.D in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior from the University of Minnesota.

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