Andrew Pauling
Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAndrew Pauling is a research fellow and climate scientist with nine years’ experience running and analysing state-of-the-art Earth system models, specialising in polar climate variability and change. He combines deep domain expertise in Antarctic and Arctic processes with strong data-science chops, routinely handling terabytes of model output using Python tooling such as xarray and dask and Pangeo infrastructure. Andrew has hands-on HPC experience compiling and modifying major climate models (CESM, GFDL-FV3, HadGEM3) and contributed to porting a radiation scheme into GT4Py, bridging legacy Fortran models and modern Python DSLs. His work spans from single-column models to fully coupled simulations and includes practical software engineering practices (git, CI, cloud) learned during industry and academic placements. A Fulbright New Zealand Science and Innovation Awardee with a PhD from the University of Washington, he pairs rigorous research credentials with reproducible, production-oriented coding practices. Notably, he has translated core climate model components into Python, enabling more accessible testing and development within the climate modeling community.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Atmospheric Sciences: Advanced Data Science Option, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Atmospheric Sciences: Advanced Data Science Option at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS, Physics, A, Master of Science - MS, Physics, A at University of Otago
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Github Skills (35)
spatial9
maps8
python8
bottom8
dask8
climate-science8
grib8
cartopy8
netcdf8
meteorology8
geometry8
matplotlib7
climate-model7
extent7
water7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
andrewpauling/Icepack-Hosing
Mar 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 4 months
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andrewpauling/pyMEBM
Jul 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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