Stephen Price
Scientific Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Price is a scientific researcher with 16+ years advancing land ice and cryosphere modeling at Los Alamos National Laboratory, focused on improving glacier and ice-sheet representations in Earth System Models to better quantify past and future sea-level change. He leads major DOE-funded projects (E3SM, ProSPect, PISCEES) and coordinates polar and security-relevant climate impacts work, bridging high-performance model development with policy-relevant projections. His hands-on contributions to the MPAS land ice core include implementing subglacial hydrology, calving physics adjustments, and global/regional diagnostics—efforts that directly improve large-scale model fidelity. Trained as a geophysicist with a PhD and decades of field and numerical experience, he pairs deep domain expertise with software engineering for extreme-scale simulation. Notably, his career blends fieldwork, code development, and program leadership, enabling rigorous probabilistic sea-level projections used by both scientists and stakeholders.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geophysics and Seismology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geophysics and Seismology at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Master of Science - MS, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at The Ohio State University
English
Github Skills (6)
model-building10
fortran10
modeling10
model-driven10
model-driven-development10
analyse9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MPAS-Dev/MPAS-Model
Mar 2015 - Mar 2021
Repository for MPAS models and shared framework releases.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 84 commits, 57 comments in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Stephen's commits primarily focus on modifications and additions to the land ice core code. They have implemented a subglacial hydrology model and added calculations for global and regional statistics, including volume above floatation, basal mass balance, and calving flux. Furthermore, the user has made changes to the data calving feature within the code base and implemented fixes. These contributions suggest a focus on model enhancements and feature additions related to the land ice model functionality.
pythonmpas
DOE-ProSPect/DOE-ProSPect.github.io
Oct 2017 - Aug 2023
Official ProSPect project site.
Contributions:184 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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