Anthony Arendt
Research Scientist, EScience Institute at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Arendt is a research scientist with 10+ years translating remote sensing and geophysical science into actionable, open research and cloud-enabled workflows at the University of Washington. He leads multiple NASA projects assessing glacier impacts on sea level and water resources while building community through hackweeks and Pangeo-driven cloud transitions that accelerate collaboration and reproducible science. His background spans field‑based gravimetry and altimetry to deploying environmental data APIs on Azure, giving him uncommon fluency across sensors, models, and production data platforms. A committed advocate for open source and data sharing, he routinely runs training events that fuse education with practical cloud adoption, seeding public science communities in polar and high‑mountain research.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Master's Degree, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at University of AlbertaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geophysics at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Github Skills (66)
snow10
python10
reproducible-research10
jupyter-book10
django9
science9
api-client9
geotools9
admin9
open-science9
relational-databases8
postgis8
sql8
collaboration8
x-plane8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aaarendt/HackWeek-Writeup
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
Writeup on hack weeks
Contributions:30 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 1 month
writeup
aaarendt/2016-11-29-HiMAT
Nov 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 90 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
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