Stephen Cox
Lamont Assistant Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Cox is a Lamont Assistant Research Professor and geochronologist with 11+ years translating earth science questions into quantitative, reproducible research using geochemistry, thermochronology, and statistics. He combines a Caltech PhD and field-mapping experience with strong software and hardware skills—Python, LabVIEW, DAQ systems, QGIS, and MySQL—to build automated laboratory workflows, data-reduction pipelines, and publication-quality visualizations. As a PI he has secured and managed millions in research funding while mentoring teams of graduate students and lab staff across multi-PI projects. His work bridges fundamental tectonics and climate-change questions with practical applications in agriculture and hazard analysis, and he writes for both specialist and general audiences. An amateur electrical engineer and programmer by avocation, he often prototypes instrument automation (Raspberry Pi, Red Pitaya, Arduino) to accelerate laboratory throughput and novel measurements.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Geochemistry, PhD, Geochemistry at California Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (BA), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Columbia University in the City of New York
English, French
Github Skills (14)
geoscience10
computer-vision10
mass-spectrometry10
data-acquisition10
mass10
hardware10
python9
optical-flow4
journal2
creative-commons2
structure-from-motion2
academia1
open-access1
fault1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AGESLDEO/pychron
Feb 2018 - Jul 2024
Data acquisition and processing framework for Ar-Ar geochronology and noble gas mass spectrometry
Contributions:89 pushes, 6 branches, 3 comments in 6 years 6 months
structure-from-motiondata-acquisitionnoblepythonoptical-flow
AGES-LDEOData/helix_air190
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:313 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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