About

About this site and me


This site

. . . is written, built, and maintained in RStudio using the R blogdown package and the Hugo static website generator, and is hosted on GitHub Pages. See How I Deploy My Website to GitHub Using RStudio, blogdown, and Hugo.

Everything is open-source, plain-text, future-proof, platform-independent, all-natural, and various other things of this nature.

Me

Richard A. Lent, Ph.D.

Learning Design Specialist
Information Technology Services
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, Massachusetts USA 01610

EDUCATION
- Ph.D State University of New York at Stony Brook (Ecology and Evolution)
- M. S. University of Vermont (Wildlife and Fisheries Biology)
- B. S. University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Natural Resource Studies)
- Unix System/C/C++ Programming Certificate, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Data Science Specialization, Johns Hopkins University and Coursera
- Diploma, Maynard High School (Massachusetts)

POSITIONS
- Research Assistant, Carr Research Laboratory, Inc., Wellesley, Massachusetts
- Scientist, GCA/Technology Division, Bedford, Massachusetts
- Wildlife Biologist, Environmental Research and Technology, Inc., Concord, Massachusetts
- Research Assistant, Manomet Bird Observatory, Manomet, Massachusetts
- Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology, Seatuck Research Program; Seatuck Foundation:

  • Staff Biologist

  • Assistant Director

  • Acting Executive Director

  • Associate Director of Research

- Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, Amherst College
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology, Amherst College.
- Data Manager/Ecologist, Harvard University, Harvard Forest
- Present position: Learning Design Specialist, College of the Holy Cross

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
- Certified Wildlife Biologist (The Wildlife Society)
- Xi Sigma Pi (National Forestry Honor Society, Alpha Omicron Chapter)