Dexter Howard
Graduate Research Assistant
Greater Roanoke Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDexter Howard is a Ph.D. candidate and graduate research assistant at Virginia Tech with eight years of experience studying freshwater quality and organic carbon cycling in lakes and reservoirs. His research combines extensive fieldwork—high-frequency sensors, grab and handheld sampling—with lab analytical chemistry for carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a, plus R-based modeling and data management. He has led teaching labs and field trips, mentoring students through semester-long monitoring and analysis projects, and has published reservoir datasets to public repositories. Dexter’s work emphasizes how organic carbon dynamics vary across spatial and temporal scales, translating complex sensor and chemical data into actionable understanding for water resources management. An early-career scientist who independently executed senior and dissertation projects, he blends hands-on sampling acumen with reproducible data stewardship and modeling expertise. Based in the Greater Roanoke area, he brings practical reservoir monitoring experience that bridges field, lab, and computational methods.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biological Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (8)
reservoir10
flora10
heat10
python9
sensor7
gateway5
transmission3
home-assistant3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dwh77/Reservoirs
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Scripts for manipulating reservoir data: making layer files from CTD + Flora, making bathymetric maps, and heat maps
Contributions:76 pushes in 1 year 2 months
dwh77/LE2022
Jan 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:21 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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