Nicholas Herold
Senior Climatologist - Pacific Climate Extremes
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Herold is a senior climatologist with over 15 years of international experience spanning academia, government and the private sector, currently leading Pacific climate extremes work at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology while running Applied Climate Science Pty Ltd. He combines deep expertise in paleoclimate and modern extreme-event modelling with practical climate-risk consulting and bespoke data analysis to help organisations use climate information for decision-making. Nicholas has taught and developed training for the WMO, contributed to state-level climate projections and policy in New South Wales, and installs and validates global climate models on HPC systems—a skillset rooted in his PhD in paleoclimate modelling from the University of Sydney. Colleagues describe him as equally at home publishing peer-reviewed research, supervising students, and building operational climate services, with a background that even includes field communications experience from Army reserves.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Saint Andrews Cathedral SchoolThe University of Sydney
Github Skills (38)
indices10
hydrology10
ecosystem9
routines7
rust7
spatial6
plotly6
cartopy6
layout6
charts6
prediction-model6
webgl6
visualization6
geometry6
regl5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ARCCSS-extremes/climpact2
Mar 2015 - Jul 2021
Combining climdex.pcic and climpact @ UNSW
Contributions:264 commits, 5 PRs, 265 pushes in 6 years 5 months
rustunsw
ARCCSS-extremes/climpact
Nov 2017 - Jul 2022
Calculate the ET-SCI climate extremes indices
Contributions:1 release, 187 commits, 36 PRs in 4 years 9 months
extremesclimateindicesscicalculate
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