Shastri Paturi
Lead Global Ocean Modeler at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC)
Mississippi, United States
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Top SchoolShastri Paturi is a Lead Global Ocean Modeler with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and applied consulting in physical and coastal oceanography, limnology, and environmental fluid dynamics. He has deep expertise in numerical modeling across 1D–3D systems (GEMSS, Delft3D, EFDC, ROMS, HYCOM, etc.), data assimilation, and water quality, and has led Marine DA efforts at NOAA and global modeling at FNMOC. Proficient in FORTRAN and MATLAB, he also applies groundwater tools (MODFLOW/SEAWAT/MT3DMS) at the source-code level and integrates GIS workflows with ArcGIS/QGIS. His career spans operational science, risk assessments for thermal discharges, storm surge forecasting, and coupled ocean–atmosphere studies, demonstrating an uncommon mix of operational delivery and in-depth research. Based in Mississippi, he combines hands-on coding and model development with team leadership and project management across government and private sectors. He is pragmatic about turning complex hydrodynamic problems into operational products, with a particular knack for porting research models into production data-assimilation systems.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. (Marine Science; Specialization in Physical Oceanography), Physical Oceanography, M.Sc. (Marine Science; Specialization in Physical Oceanography), Physical Oceanography at Andhra UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Environmental Fluid Dynamics (Civil Engineering), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Environmental Fluid Dynamics (Civil Engineering) at Queen's UniversityMaster's degree, Physical Oceanography, Master's degree, Physical Oceanography at Memorial University of Newfoundland
English, Hindi, Telugu, protuguese, Odia
Github Skills (11)
jedi10
forecast10
gfs9
converter9
obs9
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ocean6
ice4
operator3
kubernetes2
time-series1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NOAA-EMC/gdas-marine-viz
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:41 reviews, 20 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 4 months
ShastriPaturi/global-workflow
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
Global Superstructure/Workflow supporting the Global Forecast System (GFS)
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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