Chris Hasenkopf
Climate Fellow
Washington, District Of Columbia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hasenkopf is an atmospheric scientist and social entrepreneur with a decade of experience building open-data solutions to tackle air inequality worldwide. As co-founder and CEO of OpenAQ and a Climate Fellow at Echoing Green, he has combined scientific rigor with community-driven technology to make real-time air quality data accessible in under-monitored regions. He has served as Chief Air Pollution Advisor to the U.S. Department of State and designed public-health-focused air quality programs for U.S. missions abroad. An academic as well as practitioner, he teaches graduate-level air quality policy at Johns Hopkins and previously led a high-impact particulate study and outreach program in Ulaanbaatar that raised roughly $300k and launched Mongolia’s first social-media–linked air monitor. Chris blends field research, policy experience, and nonprofit leadership to turn complex atmospheric science into actionable public information. He is driven by a conviction that transparent data and community voice can transform environmental health outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, 2003; Astronomy & Astrophysics, B.S, 2003; Astronomy & Astrophysics at Penn State UniversityPhD, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, PhD, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (21)
api-platform7
data-format7
api6
open-data4
csv4
gis3
open-datasets3
json3
metadata3
geospatial3
scales2
python2
ckan2
aws-s31
data-quality1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openaq/openaq-data-format
Mar 2016 - Jan 2020
A description of the data format provided by the OpenAQ platform.
Contributions:10 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 11 months
openaqdata-format
openaq/community-wishlist
Jan 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 comment, 6 issues in 4 years
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