Diego聽Ibarra
Oceans Management Biologist Programmer at Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolDiego Ibarra is an interdisciplinary oceanographer and programmer with 10 years of experience translating advanced oceanographic science into operational tools for managers, fishers, and other non-scientific end-users. Based in Halifax, he builds near-real-time spatial products and 3-D biological-physical models (ROMS) and develops bio-optical instruments to support sustainable aquaculture. Diego founded OceanPython.org and led development of OceanViewer.org, a portal that combines real-time forecasts with a citizen oceanography upload system, showing his focus on accessible, user-driven ocean data. At Fisheries and Oceans Canada he programs programmatic tools to generate vessel-density products, blending domain expertise with pragmatic software engineering. His background spans a PhD in Oceanography, remote sensing/GIS training, and hands-on aquaculture engineering, a mix that enables both rigorous modelling and practical instrument design. He鈥檚 as comfortable deploying Python-based data pipelines as he is designing sensors, making him a bridge between field, lab, and operational ocean services.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Biochemistry, Utilization of Aquatic Resources and Aquaculture, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Biochemistry, Utilization of Aquatic Resources and Aquaculture at Tecnol贸gico de MonterreyAdvanced Diploma in Aquaculture, Advanced Diploma in Aquaculture at Memorial University of NewfoundlandDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Oceanography, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Oceanography at Dalhousie UniversityDiploma in Remote Sensing and GIS, Diploma in Remote Sensing and GIS at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana / UNEPEscuela Secundaria Federal No. 17 "Benemerito de las Americas"
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
systems-biology10
computational-biology10
atmosphere8
heat8
quantile8
ais7
vms7
wps5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Diego-Ibarra/phytoplankton_plot
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
This is an exercise for Lab 2 (biol3782)
Contributions:45 PRs, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
computational-biologysystems-biologylab
Diego-Ibarra/ship_mapper
Mar 2018 - Jun 2019
Tool to create "ship density" heat maps from AIS, VMS and other ship-position services.
Contributions:251 commits, 29 PRs, 244 pushes in 1 year 3 months
positionwpsvmsshipheat
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