Amber Runyon
Lead Climate Risk Analyst
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmber Runyon is a climate and water scientist with a PhD in Ecology and over a decade of experience translating complex climate data into actionable risk assessments and decision-support tools. She has led climate risk teams at the National Park Service, co-authored departmental guidance used government-wide, and applied CMIP6 methods to park-scale vulnerability and infrastructure planning. At Virga Labs she bridges stakeholder-centered design with rigorous hydrological and climate analysis to deliver tools that are both scientifically robust and operationally useful. Her background spans academia, federal policy, and international climate negotiations, giving her a rare blend of technical modeling, policy translation, and partnership-building skills. Based in Fort Collins, she focuses on making uncertainty intelligible for managers so that conservation and water systems are resilient in the face of change.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), International Studies, Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), International Studies, Economics at Austin College
Github Skills (48)
satellite-images9
historical8
weather8
r-package8
prediction-model7
plot7
meta-analysis7
parse7
spatial7
sketchup6
water6
prism6
geospatial6
spatial-data6
raster6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CCRP-Adaptation/Climate-Plots-Variations
May 2017 - Jan 2020
Set of functions to parse historical PRISM data and CMIP5 projections, create data tables, and plot visualizations.
Contributions:39 commits, 3 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years 8 months
pythonplotdata-tableshistoricalvisualizations
acrunyon/hello_world
Oct 2016 - Mar 2021
Tutorial
Contributions:10 PRs, 13 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 5 months
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