Ocean/Climate Modeler & Software DevELoper

Although my position is held at Rutgers University, my funding primarily comes from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). Our task is to develop Modular Ocean Model 6 (MOM6), a state-of-the-art ocean/climate model. I design and conduct high resolution simulations in the Northwest Atlantic. I also develop a significant amount of python scripts to aid in the data extraction, input file generation, grid generation, visual analysis, and statistical analysis. I was a primary contributor for the Gridtools Python Package which allows a user to create a grid from scratch and all associated grid files required by MOM6. I've also been a part of a number of projects outside of GFDL where I assist or instruct other groups on how to use MOM6. For example, part of my efforts have recently been geared towards assisting the National Weather Service adopt MOM6 for smoother data assimilation for hurricane modeling. Similarly, a future project I'll be a contributor to revolves around assimilating MOM6 into the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis model to improve forecasts. Below are a few images of my contributions: