Data engineer at University of Delaware

As a professional staff member at the University of Delaware, I work for the Center for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis. This position allows me to use my atmospheric and oceanic science background to contribute on multiple fronts. My weekly routine involves maintaining our own satellite receiving station, creating visualization products with GOES16-GOES17 and NEXRAD radar data, and processing/quality controlling MODIS-AQUA, SUOMI-NPP/VIIRS, and AVHRR data. Our process involves acquiring the raw telemetry data from various polar orbiting satellites, checking the quality of the data, accounting for clouds or other natural artifacts interfering with the remote sensing, processing the data into netCDF format, and uploading the data to numerous visualization servers and THREDDS servers for research purposes. Our satellite data and imagery is also used in agricultural and fishing industries and we create specific data products for these satellite dependent initiatives. We also fulfill private data requests for scientists interested in special processing of data for a particular domain. Recently, we have been developing experimental data products where we forecast ocean conditions. Additionally, I've been particularly enamored with the incredible data coming from GOES16 and I've been developing real time, true color imagery via Python as well as working with combining NEXRAD data with GOES16 true color data. Below are some examples of the end products that I make at the Satellite Receiving Station. Here are some more imagery products I've made.

Above, I fused together GOES-16 true color imagery & NEXRAD II radar from KDIX. This GIF is updated in real-time at - http://basin.ceoe.udel.edu/imagery/radar_goes_midatlantic.gif

For more GOES-16 real-time imagery, please go to http://basin.ceoe.udel.edu/imagery/

Agricultural Dashboard - I maintain all datasets for this application and created this real-time dashboard .  

I created and maintain a Weather Page focused on Delaware and based on spaghettimodels.com. 

I also maintain a large number of datasets and make them publicly available via THREDDS & ERDDAP