Octavia Crompton
Research Physical Scientist at US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
Sebastopol, California, United States
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Top SchoolOctavia Crompton is a Research Physical Scientist with a decade of experience applying remote sensing, geospatial modeling, and machine learning to ecohydrology and conservation problems. At USDA-ARS she blends physics-based and statistical methods to improve risk assessment and water management in data-sparse settings, having secured ~$250K to support applied workflows and web tools. Her research portfolio spans post-fire runoff and vegetation recovery, deforestation-driven surface warming, and detailed mapping of the Okavango Delta using LiDAR and Google Earth Engine. Comfortable at the interface of models and observations, she has benchmarked regional weather models against satellite land surface temperature to reveal meaningful biases. Trained as a physicist with a PhD from UC Berkeley, she brings rigorous quantitative skills and a knack for synthesizing field data and Earth observation at multiple scales.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at University of California, BerkeleyScB, Mathematical Physics, ScB, Mathematical Physics at Brown UniversityGeological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Harvard University
Spanish
Github Skills (11)
fortran6
solver6
equation6
manifold6
co-simulation5
cluster-computing4
hpc4
petsc4
mpi4
openmpi2
sve1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
octavia-crompton/SVE-R
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
A coupled Saint Venant Equations (SVE)- Richards Equation solver
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 57 pushes in 7 months
equationsequationrichards-equationcoupledsve
octavia-crompton/fire
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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