Oriana Chegwidden
Research Scientist at CarbonPlan
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOriana Chegwidden is a research scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in the intersection of climate change and water, translating large environmental datasets into policy-relevant insights. Based in Seattle, she builds and maintains infrastructure for massive climate and hydrology datasets (over 80 TB) and has led multiple multiyear research projects to completion. At CarbonPlan and the University of Washington she combines rigorous PhD-level civil engineering training with practical data storytelling to inform decision-making. She has supervised and mentored undergraduate researchers, emphasizing inclusive mentorship, and brings hands-on experience turning complex climate data into actionable science.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at Haverford College
Github Skills (61)
capacity10
climate-science10
climate-change10
hydrology10
sustainability9
meteorology9
bootstrapping9
carbon-emissions9
statistical-models9
renewable-energy9
trace8
statistics8
simulator8
netcdf7
prediction-model7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
carbonplan/cmip6-downscaling
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Climate downscaling using CMIP6 data
Contributions:99 reviews, 233 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 11 months
climatecmip6cmip6-dataclimate-changedownscaling
orianac/scikit-downscale
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Statistical climate downscaling in Python
Contributions:10 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
pythonclimatebootstrappingstatisticalpython2
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