Kevin Goebbert
Associate Provost
Valparaiso, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Goebbert is an academic leader and meteorologist with 11 years of professional experience, currently serving as Associate Provost and Professor of Meteorology at Valparaiso University. He blends faculty scholarship and hands-on atmospheric science—holding a PhD from the University of Oklahoma—with institutional strategy, having led strategic planning and faculty affairs initiatives. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core weather-data tooling in the widely used MetPy project by implementing and testing nuanced wind and deformation calculations. His work bridges research, teaching, and administration, translating technical meteorological expertise into university-wide operational improvements. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs rigorous scientific thinking with practical governance to advance both academic programs and campus systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Meteorology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Meteorology at Valparaiso UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Meteorology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Meteorology at University of Oklahoma
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scientific-computing10
numpy10
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Github contributions (5)
Unidata/MetPy
Jun 2015 - Nov 2022
MetPy is a collection of tools in Python for reading, visualizing and performing calculations with weather data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:86 reviews, 91 commits, 75 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the `metpy` repository by implementing and testing weather data calculations. They focused on splitting wind speed and direction calculations into separate functions and then created associated tests for these functions. They also fixed docstrings, updated Wyoming Archive read procedures, and implemented and tested new calculations for shearing, stretching, and total deformation, as well as frontogenesis. Their work involved modifying existing calculation files and creating/modifying corresponding test files.
hodographmeteorologypythoncalculationsatmospheric-science
kgoebber/nwp_notebooks
Apr 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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