Jessica Scheick
Research Assistant Professor at University of Maine
Nottingham, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolJessica Scheick is a research assistant professor and glaciologist who combines 11+ years of field-led earth science with hands-on remote sensing, GIS, and open-source software development. Her NASA- and NSF-funded PhD work used iceberg observations to illuminate ice-ocean interactions, and she has nearly a decade of experience organizing and leading polar field campaigns deploying high-frequency GPS. At UNH and the University of Maine she develops novel remote-sensing methods and leads community tools—most notably contributing to icepyx, a Python toolkit that helps scientists work with ICESat-2’s massive datasets and cloud/HPC workflows. Her background bridges academia, consulting, and applied policy-relevant collaboration with Greenlandic agencies, giving her research immediate societal impact. She’s currently exploring the interface of big data and earth science, building practical Python resources to lower barriers for disciplinary scientists working with terabyte-scale satellite data.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Bryn Mawr CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Maine
Github Skills (155)
cloud-computing10
python10
netcdf10
pandas10
open-science10
data-science10
dask10
nasa-data10
reproducible-research10
nasa-api10
gis10
jupyter-book10
numpy9
hdf9
jupyter9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gjvanleeuwen/icepyx
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
Python tools for obtaining and working with ICESat-2 data
Contributions:39 commits in 1 year 5 months
python
icesat2py/is2_test_data
Sep 2023 - Apr 2026
This repo contains test data, including actions for obtaining and updating it, needed for testing icepyx functionality that uses ICESat-2 data.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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