Hi! I'm Alek, a Research Scientist at UMD (go terps!) specializing in polar climate change prediction with a strong focus on sea ice - the floating ice over the Arctic and Southern Ocean.
Research Interests
- ❄️ Polar and global climate variability, especially sea ice (e.g. Arctic sea ice decline).
- 📊 Climate model projections (CMIP6/CESM)
- 🛰️ Remote sensing (imagery and lidar) & data assimilation (OSSEs)
Check out this Jupyter Book for on-going updates to Arctic sea ice thickness with ICESat-2.
Skills
- 🛠 Python, GIS & Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and AI tools, cloud-native data and analysis .
🚨 I am what some might call an academic coder... This means my projects are a bit under-funded, hacky, and lacking in complete documentation and testing. So, please reach out if any of my code doesn't make sense or you want help running things.
🚀 I am always open to collaboration! Please reach out if you are working on something interesting in climate science, data analysis, or satellite-based research.
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