Ryan Abernathey
Ryan P. Abernathey, an Associate Professor of Earth And Environmental Science at Columbia University and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, is a physical oceanographer who studies large-scale ocean circulation and its relationship with Earth's climate. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2012 and did a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is a member of the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) science team and co-founder of the Pangeo open science community. Prof. Abernathey is an active participant in and advocate for open source software, open data, and reproducible science. He is a core developer for the Python packages Xarray and Zarr and contributor to many others.
Talks
[WORKSHOP CANCELLED] Pangeo Forge: Crowdsourcing Open Data in the Cloud
Pangeo Forge is a new open-source platform that aims to make it easy to extract data from traditional data repositories and deposit it in cloud storage in analysis-ready, cloud-optimized (ARCO) formats. This workshop will teach users how to use Pangeo Forge and contribute to the growing, community driven data library.