Katharyn Duffy
Senior Scientist at National Forest Foundation
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatharyn Duffy is a Senior Scientist blending eight years of experience across forestry, wildfire, and EcoInformatics to turn large ecological datasets into actionable science. Based in Flagstaff, she leads R&D and nature-based solutions at Vibrant Planet while serving as an adjunct faculty at Northern Arizona University, where she has developed and taught PhD-level courses on environmental informatics and research infrastructures. Her work spans open-source pipeline development, API-driven data integration, and visualization of in-situ and remote sensing products—skills honed managing NASA-funded software and public repositories. She also authors Verra methodology for fire-adapted forest management, reflecting a rare mix of applied policy, academic rigor (PhD, 4.0), and production-ready data engineering.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, 4.0, Ph.D, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, 4.0 at Northern Arizona University
Github Skills (15)
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science5
collaboration4
python4
neon3
data-science3
energy2
javascript1
r-package1
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data-processing1
modis1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
katharynduffy/phenoSynth
Jun 2018 - Dec 2020
Integrates Phenocam & remotely sensed data products
Contributions:215 commits, 5 PRs, 166 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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katharynduffy/NEONSummitPhenology
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Repo for phenology group at the NEON Science Summit, October 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 year
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