Jon Schwenk
Staff Scientist - 3 at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolJon Schwenk is a Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a decade of experience shepherding research from proposal to operational impact, currently advancing multidisciplinary science and engineering projects. His trajectory from EIT to PhD-trained researcher and now senior staff reflects strengths in translating complex ideas into fundable programs and executable experiments. He blends deep civil and geo-engineering foundations with hands-on postdoctoral research and lab leadership, driving both technical innovation and team collaboration. Based in Los Alamos, he is comfortable navigating national-lab scale challenges—grant writing, program management, and technical delivery—while staying connected to code and reproducible science through his GitHub presence. Colleagues value his ability to move ambiguous concepts into concrete milestones and to balance long-term research goals with near-term operational needs.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering at Tennessee Technological University
Github Skills (71)
prediction-model10
representations10
community-detection10
google-earth10
networkx10
python9
hydrology9
watershed9
google-earth-engine9
earth9
delta9
geology9
geomorphology9
climate-change9
geometric9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lanl/ecopop
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:31 commits, 24 pushes in 1 month
VeinsOfTheEarth/RivGraph
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Extracting and quantifying graphical representations of river and delta channel networks from binary masks
Contributions:3 releases, 8 reviews, 335 commits in 3 years 10 months
deltanetworkxpythonrepresentationsmasks
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