Jordan Adams
Assistant Professor, Geology And Environmental Science Department at Northshore Technical Community College (NTCC)
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Adams is an assistant professor of Geology and Environmental Science with 12 years of experience blending classroom teaching, hands-on fieldwork, and quantitative geomorphology research. He develops and pilots GIS curriculum while supervising honors projects and co-organizing recurring green-infrastructure field trips across New Orleans, and co-advises the Earth and Environmental Sciences Club. A former postdoc at CU Boulder, his research integrates hydrodynamic models (Delft3D) into landscape-evolution toolkits and he is a core contributor to the Landlab open-source project, improving overland-flow components and model validation. Active in community science outreach, he co-chairs Delgado STEAM Day and has reached 600+ elementary students through partnerships with local conservation and cultural institutions. His background spans academic research, open-source model development, and practical lab/QA experience from industry, giving him a rare mix of computational, pedagogical, and operational skills.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Biology, Biology at Temple UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Science at Moravian CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Earth and Environmental Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tulane University
Github Skills (11)
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algorithms10
numerical10
numerical-methods10
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python10
slab10
modeling10
scientific-computing10
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documentation9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
landlab/landlab
May 2014 - May 2018
Landlab codebase, wiki, and tests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:221 commits, 25 PRs, 190 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Jordan made significant contributions to the Landlab codebase, focusing on improvements to the overland flow component. Their work included refactoring code, adding detailed documentation, and implementing stability criteria. Furthermore, the user refactored field names to fit the standard naming conventions and is adding analytical solutions to the component, indicating a focus on model validation.
codebasewikilandlab
landlab/pub_adams_etal_gmd
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 28 pushes in 8 months
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