Nicholas Depsky
Research Climate Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Depsky is a research scientist and climate policy advisor with nine years of experience building climate adaptation, water modeling, and geospatial analysis tools for UNDP, academia, and international NGOs. He combines technical expertise—from watershed and hazard modeling to downscaled population and mobility datasets—with hands-on policy engagement, having supported country offices in Zambia, Brazil, and across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. His PhD work and subsequent research emphasize inequities in vulnerability to sea-level rise, drought-driven migration, and environmental justice, translating complex climate signals into actionable resilience planning. Nicholas has contributed to national- and global-scale assessments tied to the social cost of carbon and has a track record of convening policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to embed scientific metrics into human development frameworks. Notably, he pairs rigorous quantitative methods with community-centered field work, making technical analyses relevant for on-the-ground adaptation decisions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Environmental Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Environmental Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS Hydrology and Water Resources Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Hydrology and Water Resources Science at University of California, Davis
Spanish, potuguese
Github Skills (14)
gis8
raster8
python7
pandas7
statistics6
data-structures6
data-structure6
data-analysis6
data-science6
climate-science5
julia4
parallel-computing3
monitoring2
spi1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
njdepsky/GA-Election-Data-2020
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:73 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
njdepsky/CA-POP
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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