Steven Pestana
Hydrologic Scientist at TealWaters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Pestana is a hydrologic scientist and educator based in Seattle with a decade of experience studying remote sensing and the hydrology of snow-dominated mountain watersheds. He combines field-based insight, satellite and sensor data analysis, and open-source tool development to advance watershed science and operational water-resource understanding. Having held research and teaching roles at the University of Washington, a stint at NASA JPL, and positions with USGS and TealWaters, he bridges academic rigor and applied government and private-sector projects. He is passionate about making science accessible—teaching both in classrooms and outdoors—and develops open hardware and software to lower barriers for hydrologic monitoring. An underappreciated strength is his fluency moving between scale: from designing sensor systems on the ground to interpreting landscape-scale remote sensing signals.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of WashingtonCal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (94)
ecology10
ord10
sensor10
mercury10
balena10
cli9
gdal9
hydrology9
cython9
gis9
raster9
rasterio8
post-processing8
government-data8
python8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spestana/goes-cues
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:249 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
spestana/sensor-bands
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Table of satellite sensor bands in the visible to infrared wavelengths
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
visiblesatellitesensorieeebands
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