Kevin Gaastra
Graduate Research Assistant
Greater Houston United States
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Top SchoolKevin Gaastra is a PhD student and graduate research assistant at Rice University specializing in tectonics and paleomagnetism, with 11 years of research experience applying statistical methods to questions like recent true polar wander. He combines field and laboratory skills—thermal and rock magnetization experiments, demagnetization analysis—with software development capacity demonstrated as lead in-house coder for UC Berkeley’s Paleomagnetism lab and contributor to the PmagPy demag GUI. His background includes seismic inversion work at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory and running impact hydrocode simulations, giving him a rare blend of observational, experimental, computational, and statistical expertise. Based in Greater Houston, he bridges geophysics and geoscience software, improving analysis workflows while pursuing rigorous constraints on Earth’s recent polar motions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Geophysics and Seismology, GPA: 3.6, Bachelor's degree, Geophysics and Seismology, GPA: 3.6 at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geophysics and Seismology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geophysics and Seismology at Rice University
English, conversational spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
python9
package8
bundle8
pyinstaller8
cffi8
revit-api8
freeze7
py2app7
py2exe7
csv6
header-files6
wxpython6
unit-testing6
dialog6
setuptools4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Rice-Tectonics-Group/PySkew
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:236 commits, 119 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
Swanson-Hysell-Group/iSALE-tracer-analysis
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes in 2 months
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