Stephen Roecker
Soil Data Scientist & GIS Specialist
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Roecker is a Soil Data Scientist and GIS Specialist with 12 years of federal experience modernizing soil survey systems at the USDA-NRCS National Soil Survey Center. He leads the Soil Business Systems Branch, authors national soil survey and digital mapping standards, and serves as Soil Theme Lead for the Federal Geographic Data Committee. A developer of R and GIS tools, he builds reproducible workflows for soil (geo)information, data QA, and spatial modeling—including contributions to continental-scale projects like the CONUS portion of the Global Soil Salinity Project. He combines hands-on field soil mapping experience from the Mojave Desert with technical leadership in training and cross-agency liaison work. Based in Saint Paul, he balances rigorous scientific methods with practical software development to make complex soil data interoperable and accessible. His public code and research profiles underscore a commitment to open science and reproducible spatial analytics.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Agronomy and Crop Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Agronomy and Crop Science at West Virginia UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Soil Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Soil Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
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Github Skills (34)
soil10
algorithms10
r10
databases10
statistics10
spatial-data10
eda10
sql10
database10
r-package9
workspace9
webservice7
gis7
ggplot6
visualization6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ncss-tech/gsp-gsocseq
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
Workspace for US Global Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration Project
Contributions:100 commits, 88 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ncss-tech/stats_for_soil_survey
Sep 2015 - May 2022
S4SS: Statistics for Soil Survey
Contributions:411 commits, 3 PRs, 473 pushes in 6 years 8 months
statisticsusdanrcssoilsoil-survey
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