Lauren Vargo
Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolLauren Vargo is a Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington with 11 years' experience studying how and why glaciers and other cryospheric systems are changing. She combines field observations, remote sensing, climate reanalysis, GCM outputs, and numerical modeling to develop and improve glacier mass-balance models and to identify climate and human drivers of glacier change, with a regional focus on New Zealand. Lauren holds a PhD in Geological and Earth Sciences and brings practical expertise in building reproducible workflows for remote glacier monitoring. Beyond research, she co-founded Girls on Ice Aotearoa/New Zealand and is committed to widening access to glaciology through teaching and public-facing science communication.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Geology/Earth Science, General, Master of Science - MS, Geology/Earth Science, General at The University of New MexicoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Victoria University of WellingtonBachelor of Arts - BA, Geology/Earth Science, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Geology/Earth Science, General at The College of Wooster
Github Skills (9)
h33
census3
geography2
gis2
python2
geopandas2
geopackage1
geospatial1
geospatial-analysis1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lvargo13/geodetic_mb
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
lvargo13/NCL_scripts
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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