Carola Kaiser
Project Manager Team Lead at Coastal Emergency Risks Assessment (CERA) at LSU
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolCarola Kaiser is a Project Manager Team Lead and GIS specialist with 12 years of experience building and operating real-time web-mapping systems for coastal hazard response. She leads development and emergency operations for the Coastal Emergency Risks Assessment (CERA) platform at LSU, delivering high-resolution storm surge and inundation visualizations used by NOAA, FEMA, USCG, USACE and state/local emergency managers. Her work blends software development, GIS modeling, and automated visualization workflows tied to the ADCIRC/ASGS forecasting ecosystem, turning complex hydrodynamic outputs into actionable, user-friendly decision tools. Based in Baton Rouge and trained in Geographic Information Science and Cartography, she pairs academic rigor with operational tempo, supporting live incident response and long-term resilience planning. An often-overlooked strength is her ability to manage both the scientific modeling pipelines and the front-end delivery that drives real-time decisions during storms.
12 years of coding experience
Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at Technical University Dresden, Germany
English, German
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Github Skills (13)
forecast10
ocean10
post-processing10
ocean-modelling9
automation9
infrastructure8
python8
data-retrieval7
retrieval5
emr4
dataframes3
stream-processing2
timeseries-database1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CERA-GROUP/CERA_Contouring_Matplotlib
Jan 2015 - Feb 2024
CERA contouring for KALPANA
Contributions:1 PR, 26 pushes in 9 years 2 months
CERA-GROUP/.github
Jul 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
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