Andrew Brown
Soil Scientist (Data Quality & GIS Specialist)
Sonora, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Brown is a Soil Data Quality and GIS specialist with nine years of experience applying rigorous QA to soil spatial and tabular datasets for the USDA-NRCS, currently serving the Southwest Soil Survey Region from Sonora, California. He blends field-based survey leadership—having led initial mapping in the Sierra Nevada foothills and wilderness areas—with graduate-level expertise in soils and biogeochemistry from UC Davis. A long-time contributor to soil taxonomy and regional standards committees, he brings both technical GIS/data management skills and consensus-driven standards work at the national level. His background spans applied research on managed groundwater recharge, database and web tooling for biological data early in his career, and hands-on farm and lab experience, giving him a rare mix of computational, laboratory, and field fluency. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs a deep respect for landscape-scale complexity with a meticulous approach to data integrity.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Soils and Biogeochemistry, Master's Degree, Soils and Biogeochemistry at University of California, DavisXavier High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Environmental Science, Soil Science, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Environmental Science, Soil Science, Magna Cum Laude at The University of Connecticut
Github Skills (125)
databases10
terra10
hydrology10
spatial10
r10
statistics10
spatial-regression10
sql10
reticulate10
science10
database10
json10
soil10
r-package10
raster10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
brownag/rgeomorphon
Jun 2025 - Mar 2026
A lightweight implementation of the geomorphon terrain form classification algorithm of Jasiewicz and Stepinski (2013)
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 5 PRs in 9 months
classification-algorithmclassificationcppelevationr
cran/whitebox
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 1 month
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