Phil Bresnahan
Associate Professor
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Bresnahan is an associate professor and coastal oceanographer with nine years of experience designing sensors, algorithms, and community-engaged platforms to address coastal water quality and resilience challenges. He combines hands-on hardware and software engineering—developing novel marine chemical sensors and citizen-science devices like Smartfin—with data science expertise in Python and R to study acidification, deoxygenation, eutrophication, and sea level impacts. Phil has a strong outreach and commercialization track record, having led makerspace operations at Scripps, co-founded a hardware startup, and written grant and business proposals to translate science into applied solutions. Based in Wilmington, NC, he prioritizes reciprocal partnerships with coastal communities to deliver real-time environmental data and improve ocean and climate literacy for learners of all ages. An underappreciated strength is his ability to bridge academic research, startup thinking, and hands-on prototyping to move innovations from lab to shoreline.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoB.S., Chemical Engineering, B.S., Chemical Engineering at Lehigh UniversityLaSalle College High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
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hosting10
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ntp9
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e-ink9
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geometry7
cartopy7
arduino7
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geography6
python6
matplotlib6
computer-vision5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SUPScientist/supscientist.github.io
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
Hosting data analyses and interactive figures
Contributions:27 reviews, 359 commits, 39 PRs in 5 years
hostingfiguresdata-analysesanalyses
SUPScientist/Seaport_Tide-SLR
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
An educational Arduino and ultrasonic rangefinder–based tide and sea level rise monitoring project
Contributions:1 release, 52 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 9 months
tidesea-levelpongntpe-ink
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