John Volk
Associate Research Scientist, Hydrology
Reno, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Volk is an Associate Research Scientist in hydrology with 11 years of experience applying fieldwork, data engineering, and modeling to understand watershed response to climate variability. Based in Reno, he investigates historical and future climate impacts on Great Basin watersheds and evaluates hydrologic parameterizations in Earth System Models, bridging observational datasets and large-scale simulations. His background blends rigorous field skills—maintenance of weather stations, Distributed Temperature Sensing, streamflow and water-quality sampling—with software and data-engineering roles that streamline environmental analysis. He has a strong academic foundation (MS and PhD in Hydrology) and extensive teaching experience in fluid dynamics and hydrologic courses, which informs clear communication of complex results. Notably, he pairs hands-on field experiments with reproducible open-source techniques for data analysis and visualization, making model evaluation more transparent and actionable.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Geological Science, 3.89, Bachelor's Degree, Geological Science, 3.89 at The Ohio State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Hydrology, 3.87, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Hydrology, 3.87 at University of Nevada-Reno
Github Skills (28)
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energy10
ecology9
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open-access8
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hydrology8
agent-based-modeling8
journal8
academia7
vector7
raster7
modeling7
translator6
creative-commons6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JohnVolk/Rosely
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Interactive wind roses diagrams made easy
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 5 months
diagramssvgwinddiagramvisualization
WSWUP/gridwxcomp
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
Comparison of weather station and gridded climate datasets
Contributions:5 releases, 166 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 10 months
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