Catherine Nowakowski
Postdoctoral Researcher at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ORISE
Stonington, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolCatherine Nowakowski is a PhD-trained oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher specializing in stable isotope chemistry and nitrogen cycling, currently developing isotopic indicators of wetland nitrogen processing for the EPA's National Wetland Condition Assessment. She brings nine years of applied research experience and 10+ years of scientific programming across R, MATLAB, Fortran, and Python, with a strong track record building R packages, version-controlled analyses on GitHub, and working in UNIX/Linux HPC environments. Her skill set bridges wet-lab expertise—GC-IRMS operation, CSIA-AA, zooplankton collection and microscopy—with advanced quantitative methods in time series, spatial, and numerical modeling. Comfortable deploying fieldwork at sea and troubleshooting instrumentation, she pairs hands-on problem solving with reproducible computational workflows to translate complex environmental data into actionable insights.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Oceanography, Chemical and Physical, PhD, Oceanography, Chemical and Physical at University of Rhode IslandBio-Science Environmental Technologies, Bio-Science Environmental Technologies at Ella T Grasso Southeastern Vocational Techn SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Environmental Engineering, 3.636, Bachelor of Science (BS), Environmental Engineering, 3.636 at University of Connecticut
English, aslGithub contributions (5)
catrinanowakowski/NOAA_NDBC_Data
Nov 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
catrinanowakowski/Lake_Erie_Research
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:51 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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