Minsu Yi

Bio

Minsu is a fourth-year Statistics and Data Science major at UC Santa Barbara with a focus on environmental and geospatial data science. His interest in environmental data analytics stemmed from a fascination with tropical and aquatic wildlife. This carried into research projects that utilized statistical modeling in oceanic science. His prior work includes a Pacific shark species distribution model built in R using MaxEnt with oceanographic covariates. Additionally, Minsu has worked on a Python pipeline to process multi-year NOAA sea surface temperature data into analysis-ready raster layers for statistical applications. 

This summer, Minsu is working as an Arnhold Environmental Research Fellow at emLab UCSB under the mentorship of Kinsey and Sadie as part of the Arnhold UCSB-Conservation International Climate Solutions Collaborative. The goal of his project is to reduce fisheries bycatch in the Eastern Tropical Pacific by developing joint dynamic species distribution models for real-time ocean management frameworks. Minsu is particularly excited to work with telemetry species data and gain hands-on experience in Dynamic Ocean Management.