Derek Coffman
Research Physical Scientist at NOAA
Bothell, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Coffman is a Research Physical Scientist with over two decades of hands-on experience measuring marine aerosols and translating those observations into actionable climate and air-quality insights. Based at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, he has spent 800+ days at sea across 26 field campaigns and leads the end-to-end design of sampling systems, from shipboard and UAS payload hardware to cloud-native, near-real-time data delivery pipelines. He pairs deep domain expertise in atmospheric science with practical software and data engineering skills, building distributed acquisition systems and analytics that keep long-term research data robust and accessible. Derek’s work emphasizes operational reliability in challenging environments—recently focusing on aerosol impacts in the Arctic—and he blends fieldcraft with a commitment to reproducible, well-managed research data.
9 years of coding experience
M.S., Atmospheric Sciences, M.S., Atmospheric Sciences at University of Washington
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Github Skills (4)
data-acquisition8
interpretation2
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Github contributions (5)
NOAA-PMEL/envDataSystem
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
data acquisition system
Contributions:3 releases, 351 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 1 month
data-acquisitionacquisition
NOAA-PMEL/envDS
Dec 2021 - Feb 2025
envDataSystem reimagined
Contributions:16 PRs, 90 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 3 months
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