Evan Gowan
Researcher at KIKAI Institute for Coral Reef Sciences
Kumamoto, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Gowan is a researcher with nine years’ experience reconstructing past ice sheets, topography and sea level to improve climate-model reliability and forecast future sea-level change. He developed the PaleoMIST 80,000-year topography and ice-sheet reconstruction and maintains the GAPSLIP global past sea-level database on GitHub, using these tools to validate model outputs. His work spans field and computational methods, including Python and C++ modelling, database curation, and synthesis across 30 peer-reviewed papers. Comfortable in international teams, he has held research roles across five countries and applies independent problem-solving to bridge geological evidence with climate simulations. An unusual strength is translating deep-time topographic reconstructions into modern climate-model boundary conditions to probe impacts like East Asian monsoon variability.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Master of Science - MS, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at University of VictoriaBachelor of Science - BS, Geophysics and Seismology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Geophysics and Seismology at University of Manitoba
English, Japanese
Github Skills (27)
geoscience9
mapping-tools9
geospatial9
geophysics9
earth-science9
vintage7
ice5
petsc5
python5
sphinx5
numerical5
parallel5
mpi4
scientific-computing4
megadrive3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
evangowan/selen
May 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
equationseasolvingsea-level
evangowan/icesheet
Oct 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 release, 192 commits, 77 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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