Adrian Turner
Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrian Turner is a Staff Scientist with 13 years of experience at Los Alamos National Laboratory, specializing in climate modeling, polar climate and sea-ice physics, and numerical methods such as computational fluid dynamics and compositional convection. He combines a strong theoretical foundation—a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge—with hands-on algorithm and back-end development, contributing to MPAS-Model projects that implement weak and variational velocity solvers for sea-ice dynamics. His career bridges academic postdoctoral research at UCL and Los Alamos with practical risk-analyst experience, giving him a rare mix of rigorous modeling skills and quantitative problem-solving. Based in Santa Fe, he is known for translating complex physical theories into scalable numerical solvers used in community climate models.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (5)
fortran10
numerical-methods10
scientific-computing10
fluid-dynamics9
computational-fluid-dynamics9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MPAS-Dev/MPAS-Model
May 2013 - Jun 2021
Repository for MPAS models and shared framework releases.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Algorithm Implementer
Back-end Developer & Algorithm ImplementerContributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 507 commits in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Adrian appears to be contributing to the MPAS-CICE model by implementing and modifying core algorithms. The commits indicate work on the MPAS-CICE-CICE code, specifically related to weak and variational velocity solvers for planary meshes within the MPAS-CICE-CICE code, and also on modifying the advection source code. These changes suggest a focus on backend development related to numerical methods and the underlying mathematical models of the sea ice.
pythonmpas
E3SM-Seaice-Discussion/E3SM
Jun 2022 - Apr 2025
Sea ice discussion repository, for sea ice issues and longer-term pull requests for E3SM source code. Please make pull requests that are ready to merge into https://github.com/E3SM-Project/E3SM
Contributions:8 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
sea-icemergepull-requestse3smice
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