Kate Fossell
Acting Deputy Director, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab at NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKate Fossell is an atmospheric scientist and research leader with 13 years of experience advancing mesoscale and microscale modeling at NSF NCAR, now serving as Acting Deputy Director of the Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab. She combines deep technical expertise in high-performance computing, visualization, and analysis tools with a track record of peer-reviewed publications and operational forecasting. Her work spans atmospheric and land-ice modeling in CESM, bridging model development, large-scale computation, and real-world forecasting needs. Based in Boulder, she brings both program leadership—having held interim strategic partnerships and assistant director roles—and hands-on research experience dating back to university research and operational meteorology. Notably, she pairs an MS in Mathematics with a strong practical focus on translating complex model output into actionable insight for the research and operational communities.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Mathematics, M.S., Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeB.S., Meteorology, B.S., Meteorology at Saint Louis University
Github Skills (41)
climate-model10
prediction-model10
atmosphere10
parallel10
modeling-tool10
fortran10
parameterization10
mpi10
cluster-computing10
energy10
climate-science10
discrete-event-simulation10
earth10
renewable-energy10
climate-change10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
momentumcpt/DiagnosticsAndTools
Aug 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 years 2 months
ESCOMP/PUMAS
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
Parameterization for Unified Microphysics Across Scales
Contributions:43 reviews, 75 commits, 61 PRs in 3 years
parameterizationscales
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