Neil Swart
Research Scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolNeil Swart is a research scientist with 12 years’ experience specializing in Earth System Models at Environment and Climate Change Canada, where he coordinates development and deployment of the Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM) for major international projects like CMIP. He combines domain expertise across atmosphere, ocean, land and sea-ice with hands-on skills in Python and Fortran to run PB-scale simulations, manage tape-backed archives, and optimize models for HPC environments. Neil led large-scale CMIP6 efforts—over 300,000 simulated years and hundreds of experiments—while driving the open-source release and documentation of CanESM to broaden collaborative development. His research spans bias diagnosis, detection and attribution, and probabilistic projection methods increasingly demanded by climate services. Trained with a PhD in Earth and Ocean Sciences, he pairs rigorous academic analysis with practical engineering of model workflows and data pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD, Earth and Ocean Sciences, PhD, Earth and Ocean Sciences at University of VictoriaBSc, BSc (Hons), MSc, Ocean and Atmosphere Science, BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc, Ocean and Atmosphere Science at University of Cape TownPhD, Earth and Ocean Science, PhD, Earth and Ocean Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (37)
model-validation7
intake6
climate-model6
visualization6
risk-assessment5
earth5
validation5
infrared5
soil4
evaluation4
user-guide4
hpc-applications4
earth-engine4
diagnostics4
data-access4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
swartn/validate
Apr 2016 - Apr 2020
Climate model validation package
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 years 1 month
climateclimate-modelmodel-validationvalidation
swartn/sam-vs-jet-paper
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 53 commits, 1 push in 6 months
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