Heather Hunsinger
Geophysicist at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Golden, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeather Hunsinger is a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Geologic Hazards Science Center with nine years of experience combining field-focused hazard science and production software engineering. She builds AWS-based software, databases, and automation to deliver earthquake information and products, drawing on strong C++ skills developed for point-cloud processing and change detection during her M.S. research on rockfall hazards along I-70. A Colorado School of Mines alum with a B.S. in Geophysical Engineering and an M.S. in Geological Engineering, she also taught signal processing and data analysis using Python, reinforcing a practical bridge between research, education, and operational systems. Based in Golden, Colorado, Heather brings a rare mix of geoscience domain expertise and hands-on cloud/software engineering to make geologic hazard data timely and actionable.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Geological Engineering, -, Master of Science - MS, Geological Engineering, - at Colorado School of Mines
English
Github Skills (39)
adobe-experience-manager10
reconciliation9
vba9
near-real-time9
insar9
geopandas9
parsing9
excel9
data-import9
python8
geodesy8
near8
atmosphere8
geoscience8
earthquake8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hschovanec-usgs/magpy
Jun 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 144 pushes, 124 branches in 8 months
geomagneticpython-packagepython
hschovanec-usgs/finite-fault-product
Oct 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:33 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 8 months
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