Eric Rowell
Senior Scientist at California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)
Davis, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Rowell is a Senior Scientist with 14 years of applied experience in remote sensing, lidar, SAR, GIS, and wildland fire fuels modeling, now based in Davis, California and serving at CAL FIRE. He combines a PhD in Forestry with hands-on programming and applications development to translate complex laser and radar datasets into actionable forest-structure, fuel, and emissions products for research and land-management agencies. His career spans academic research and operational roles—from developing forest monitoring software at the National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis to leading prescribed-fire emissions work at the California Air Resources Board—reflecting a rare mix of science, coding, and policy-facing implementation. He also contributes front-end improvements to open-source projects (e.g., UI-focused work on a Big O reference) that reveal an attention to clear presentation of technical information. Colleagues rely on him to bridge rigorous remote-sensing methods with practical tools that inform fire management and ecological decision-making.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Landscape Architecture, BS, Landscape Architecture at University of California, DavisPhD, Forestry, PhD, Forestry at University of MontanaMS, Atmospheric Sciences\Earth System Sciences, MS, Atmospheric Sciences\Earth System Sciences at South Dakota Mines
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Github Skills (4)
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format-table10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ericdrowell/BigOCheatSheet
Mar 2013 - Jul 2019
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 53 PRs, 53 pushes in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on the UI of the bigocheatsheet repository. They added, modified, and removed HTML content, focusing on the presentation of algorithmic complexity information within tables. The user refactored the color legend into a table format and added/removed UI elements, specifically for the searching and sorting sections, which indicates a focus on improving the user's understanding of these concepts. The user demonstrated understanding of HTML table formatting and styling.
ericdrowell/KineticJS
Mar 2012 - Apr 2016
KineticJS is an HTML5 Canvas JavaScript framework that extends the 2d context by enabling canvas interactivity for desktop and mobile applications.
Contributions:1106 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years 1 month
canvasjavascriptjavascript-frameworkhtml5desktop
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