Sam Herreid
Postdoctoral Researcher at Open Climate Research Collective
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Herreid is a postdoctoral researcher and glaciologist with nine years of experience advancing climate science and sea-level rise prediction through fieldwork, modeling, and peer-reviewed publications in outlets like Nature Geoscience and Journal of Geophysical Research. Based at UC Irvine and co-founder/executive director of the nonprofit Open Climate Research Collective, he blends academic rigor with open-science advocacy to accelerate climate research and outreach. His work spans small-scale to global glacier analysis, including studies of debris-covered and surge-type glaciers that improve projections of ice mass loss. Sam also has entrepreneurial and technical leadership experience as a former CTO and co-founder, and he brings an uncommon public voice—publishing both scientific papers and climate-themed comedy—to engage broad audiences in complex topics.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Glaciology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Glaciology at Northumbria UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Geology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Geology at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Github Skills (2)
surface5
python1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
samherreid/DebrisCoverTools
May 2018 - Jul 2019
A suite of automated tools to aid glacier research where rock debris is present at the surface.
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 1 month
debrisrockglacieraidsurface
samherreid/DebrisCoverMetrics
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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