Adrianna Foster
Project Scientist at NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrianna Foster is a forest ecologist and ecological modeler with a decade of experience applying high-resolution individual-based models and hyperspectral/LiDAR remote sensing to understand how climate and disturbances reshape biomass, stand structure, and species composition. Based in Boulder, she blends hands-on field campaigns (forest inventory and leaf spectral sampling) with advanced computational modeling developed at NCAR, NASA Goddard, and Northern Arizona University. Her work uniquely ties disturbance-vegetation-climate interactions to predictive simulations, translating spectral indicators of stress into model forcings. A PhD from the University of Virginia with top grades, she has a track record of adapting complex forest models to novel high-resolution data streams, helping forecast ecosystem trajectories in rapidly changing northern and subalpine systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International StudiesDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Sciences, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Sciences, 4.0 at University of Virginia
English, French
Github Skills (11)
fortran10
python10
debug9
debugging9
cl8
surface8
modeling8
surf8
hydrology7
git7
ecosystem6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
adrifoster/ctsm_scripts
Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
adrifoster/fates
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
repository for the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES)
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 416 pushes in 3 years 6 months
simulatorecosystemsimulationfates
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