Jennifer Wurtzel
Research Officer at NSW Department of Primary Industries
Orange, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJennifer Wurtzel is a climatologist and Research Officer at NSW Department of Primary Industries with eight years’ experience building and operating the Enhanced Drought Information System that delivers weekly-to-seasonal drought monitoring down to farm scale. She bridges specialist programming and computational engineering with deep paleoclimate expertise from a PhD at ANU, where she reconstructed 16,000 years of Indo-Pacific rainfall variability using stalagmites. Her work translates climate monitoring and forecasts into operational tools that inform risk awareness for primary industries across New South Wales. Based in Orange, NSW, she combines hands-on data engineering and model integration with a strong foundation in paleoclimate proxies and time-series analysis, enabling practical decisions under climate variability.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Earth Systems Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Earth Systems Science at University of MichiganMaster of Science (M.S.), Paleoclimatology, Master of Science (M.S.), Paleoclimatology at Stony Brook University
Japanese
Github Skills (14)
earth10
satellite-imagery10
google-earth-engine10
earth-observation10
open-data10
jupyter-notebook10
landsat10
geospatial10
python10
jupyter10
cube10
geospatial-analysis10
documentation10
surface9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ozewex/team-drip
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:81 commits, 9 PRs, 69 pushes in 28 days
droughtphenologybasindarlingland-surface
jwurtzel/jwurtzel.github.io
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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