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 (42)
soil10
r10
statistics10
databases10
workspace10
spatial-data10
eda10
sql10
survey10
quantitative10
database10
cran10
energy-data9
r-package9
python9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ncss-tech/stats_for_soil_survey
Sep 2015 - May 2022
S4SS: Statistics for Soil Survey
Contributions:411 commits, 3 PRs, 467 pushes in 6 years 8 months
statisticsedaspatial-datasoil-surveysurvey
ncss-tech/soil-pit
Oct 2014 - Jan 2020
Workspace for projects and active development.
Contributions:685 commits, 765 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 3 months
workspace
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