Housen Chu
Research Scientist at Berkeley Lab
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolHousen Chu is a research scientist based in Berkeley with 10 years of experience probing plant–ecosystem–atmosphere interactions across subtropical and temperate forests, croplands, wetlands, and Great Lakes systems. He combines hands-on field expertise—designing, installing, and maintaining eddy covariance flux towers—with long-term data synthesis and modeling to quantify carbon, water, energy, and momentum exchanges under climatic variability. At Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley he has driven FLUXNET data curation, gap-filling, and cross-site synthesis that support predictive ecosystem resilience research. His work bridges physiological, phenological, and structural traits to ecosystem-scale fluxes, aiming to improve prediction and adaptation of managed and natural landscapes to climate change. A not-obvious strength is his track record of translating complex field instrumentation and micrometeorological deployments into high-quality, shareable datasets used for community model testing and synthesis.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at National Taiwan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology at University of ToledoMaster of Science (MS), Natural Sciences, Master of Science (MS), Natural Sciences at National Dong Hwa University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (7)
spss10
api9
metadata8
time-series8
regression1
machine-learning1
data-science1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chuhousen/aerodynamic_canopy_height
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:45 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
chuhousen/flux_timeseries_cluster
Jul 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:4 releases, 19 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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