Patricia Castellanos
Research Meteorologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolPatricia Castellanos is a Research Meteorologist at NASA’s GMAO with 11+ years of experience building aerosol modeling, radiative transfer, and satellite remote sensing tools for Earth system modeling and mission planning. She has developed aerosol assimilation capabilities in GEOS, built instrument simulators for OSSEs, and supported major missions including TEMPO, PACE, and the AOS constellation. Patricia blends deep domain expertise from a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with hands-on software and machine learning development to improve retrievals and scale modeling workflows. Her background spans academia and government labs across the US and Europe, where she constrained emissions and air quality trends using satellite observations and chemical transport models. Colleagues rely on her ability to translate complex atmospheric science into production-ready algorithms and mission-ready simulations.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkBachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at University of Maryland
Github Skills (23)
atmosphere10
fixture9
orbital-mechanics9
astrodynamics9
earth8
h38
atmospheric-modelling8
climate-model8
autopilot7
geotools7
rover7
geoserver7
agent-based-modeling7
geos7
gis7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GEOS-ESM/GMAOpyobs
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
GMAO pyobs
Contributions:12 releases, 19 reviews, 77 PRs in 2 years 1 month
python
GEOS-ESM/AeroApps
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
Aerosol applications for supporting mission development, model analysis, and atmospheric radiative transfer
Contributions:5 releases, 11 reviews, 2106 commits in 7 years 10 months
atmosphericmodel-developmentrtlsdrclimate-modelatmospheric-modelling
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