Simon Spagnol
Experimental Scientist - Oceanographer at Australian Institute of Marine Science
Greater Perth Area Australia
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Top SchoolSimon Spagnol is an experimental scientist and oceanographer with over 13 years' hands-on experience designing and executing coastal metocean field programs and building, calibrating and verifying hydrodynamic and sediment models (ROMS, RMA, SHOC and in-house 2D/3D AIMS models). Based in Greater Perth, he combines deep field expertise—instrument deployment, logistics and shipboard safety certifications—with strong data skills in Fortran, MATLAB and visualization tools to turn complex measurements into actionable science for clients and stakeholders. His career at the Australian Institute of Marine Science includes international consultancy work and process-oriented studies across northern Australia, demonstrating an ability to deliver robust modelling and reporting under challenging field conditions. Comfortable across Windows and Unix environments, Simon also brings practical hardware/software troubleshooting experience gained while operating remote field campaigns.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Hons); Master of Science, Oceanography, Bachelor of Science (Hons); Master of Science, Oceanography at James Cook University
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Github Skills (39)
ocean10
toolbox9
datasets9
climate-science9
windrose9
gtk8
octave8
probability-density8
weibull8
netcdf8
matplotlib8
qt8
probability7
polar7
matlab7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sspagnol/imos-toolbox
Aug 2015 - Jan 2023
Graphical tool for QC'ing and NetCDF'ing oceanographic datasets
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 97 branches in 7 years 5 months
datasetsgraphicalnetcdfing
sspagnol/easyplot
Oct 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:35 pushes, 5 branches in 9 years 2 months
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