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title	Cooper Kimball-Rhines, Ph.D.
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About Me Research

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c.kimballrhines001 at umb dot edu linkedIn

  <a href="https://github.com/coopermkr" target="_blank">github</a>

  <a href="/cv.pdf" download>Download CV</a>
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About Me

I am a recent PhD graduate from UMass Boston. I have experience working for or with local, state, and federal government to research and implement biodiversity policy. My current research focuses on applying genomic techniques to inform conservation policy and practice. I mainly work with ecosystem managers to identify and answer questions about population structure, genetic diversity, and inbreeding in plants that form the foundation of their restoration projects. I work with short reads, long reads, DNA, RNA, methylation, causal statistics, and ecological models to gather and assess evidence to answer complex management questions.

When not in the lab, I am easily distracted by butterflies and will often interrupt myself to point one out if I know the species.
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