Susannah Burrows
Atmospheric Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - PNNL
Richland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSusannah Burrows is an atmospheric scientist and modeler with 11 years of experience advancing how aerosols and ice-nucleating particles are represented in Earth system models. At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory she co-leads the Atmosphere and EAMxx groups for DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) and led a five-year Early Career DOE project on ice nucleation, combining field, lab, and remote-sensing data to close aerosol–INP uncertainties. She builds and manages cross-disciplinary teams (10–15 staff/postdocs), mentors early-career scientists—earning PNNL’s Mentor of the Year in 2022—and translates observations into model improvements. Her hands-on contributions span code integration and DevOps-level work for the ESM CIME infrastructure, adding cluster support and streamlining parallel test execution. Trained in atmospheric physics (Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude), she brings rare fluency across field campaigns, process-level theory, and production-scale Earth system modeling.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, German Studies, Physics, German Studies at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergBachelor’s Degree, Physics, German Studies, high honors in Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, German Studies, high honors in Physics at Oberlin CollegeDr. rer. nat., Atmospheric Physics / Meteorology, summa cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Atmospheric Physics / Meteorology, summa cum laude at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz / University of MainzKarl-Friedrich-Gymnasium, MannheimState College Area High School
English, German, French
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Github Skills (11)
bash10
parallel-computing10
computational-science10
build-automation10
python9
system-administration9
test-framework8
github-ci8
testing8
githubaction-workflow8
fortran6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ESMCI/cime
Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
Common Infrastructure for Modeling the Earth
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:11 commits, 8 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Susannah primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the build and testing infrastructure within the CIME repository, specifically focused on the use of the aprun command for parallel execution. The commits involve modifications to scripts related to case setup, namelist generation, and test execution. The user added support for new clusters by adding machine files and resolving configuration conflicts to ensure successful builds and testing of the Earth modeling system. The user also streamlined the execution process and improved resource management.
modelingearthinfrastructure
Numlet/Intercomparison_code
Jul 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:39 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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