Item talk:Q160040

usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-10-02T16:16:41.439073'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/gericke-cook
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education:
   - Certificate, Geostatistics and Open-Source Statistical Computing, 2010. University
     of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.
   - PhD, Ecology (unawarded). Colorado State University. Fort Collins, Colorado.
   - BS, Mathematics and Biology. 1998. Western Kentucky University. Bowling Green,
     KY.
   email: gcook@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - Data Science
   - Ecology
   - Machine Learning
   - R
   - GIS
   - Risk Assessment
   - Agriculture
   - Invasive Species
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Gericke is a Supervisory Data Scientist in the Data Science Branch for the USGS
     Water Resources Mission Area.
   name: Gericke Cook
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0003-2741-787X
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources
   organization_name: Water Resources Mission Area
   personal_statement: 'Gericke Cook is the lead for applied data science in the
     Data Science Branch of the Integrated Information Dissemination Division. She
     leads ingestion and integration of difficult data into meaningful analyses and
     predictions to support decision making for Water Mission Area: state-of-the-art
     AI/ML predictions, forecasts, and projections; engineering the pipeline architecture
     for processing, deployment, and operationalization of those models in HPC or
     cloud environments; and delivering analytic reporting on how our data and models
     are being consumed by the public (prep, predict, report).'
   professional_experience:
   - "Jan 2017 \u2013 Nov 2022. Mathematical Statistician: Transboundary Disease\
     \ Analytics team. USDA APHIS, Veterinary Services, Center for Epidemiology and\
     \ Animal Health"
   - 'Jan-Apr 2020. Interdisciplinary Supervisor (detail): Risk Assessment team.
     USDA APHIS, Veterinary Services, Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health'
   - 'Jun-Sep 2019. Interdisciplinary Supervisor (detail): Risk Identification team.
     USDA APHIS, Veterinary Services, Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health'
   - "Oct 2012 \u2013 Dec 2016 Quantitative Analyst. USDA APHIS, Plant Protection\
     \ and Quarantine, Center for Plant Health Science and Technology"
   - "Feb 2009 \u2013 Sep 2012 Regional GIS Specialist. USDA APHIS, Plant Protection\
     \ and Quarantine, Field Operations."
   - "Jan 2008 \u2013 Jan 2009. Cartographic Technician. USDA APHIS, Plant Protection\
     \ and Quarantine, Field Operations."
   title: Supervisory Data Scientist