Richard Winston
Hydrologist (Emeritus) at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
College Park, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Winston is a hydrologist and seasoned GUI developer with over two decades at the U.S. Geological Survey, specializing in user interfaces for groundwater modeling tools such as ModelMuse, MODFLOW GUI, SutraGUI, and GW_Chart. He holds a PhD in Geology and combines deep domain expertise in hydrogeology with practical software design to make complex models accessible to practitioners and researchers. As a long-time contributor to USGS modeling software and co-author of Model Viewer, he focuses on bridging scientific rigor and user-centered design. Based in College Park, Maryland, he continues to contribute in an emeritus role, mentoring and refining tools that have become staples in groundwater modeling. His background spanning geology, botany, and biology gives him a multidisciplinary perspective that informs model development and interpretation. Colleagues value his rare combination of academic credentials and hands-on engineering that simplifies advanced groundwater simulation for a broad audience.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Geology, B.S., Geology at West Virginia UniversityPhD, Geology, PhD, Geology at University of MarylandPhD, Geology, PhD, Geology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Swedish, German, French
Github Skills (47)
hydrology9
modeling9
earth-science9
spatial7
gis6
openstreetmap6
wps6
system-information5
shapefile5
ensembles5
data-management5
gdal5
qgis5
geotools5
prediction-model5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MODFLOW-ORG/ModelingTools
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Tools to help generate input and view output from groundwater models
Contributions:896 commits, 4 PRs, 1379 pushes in 3 years 4 months
rbwinst-usgs/EGRET
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 month
r-packagetermwater-qualitylong-termstreamflow
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