Taylor Smith
Research Scientist at University of Potsdam
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolTaylor Smith is a research scientist based in Berlin with a decade of experience applying Python and large-scale geospatial methods to remote sensing problems in water resources, erosion, climate extremes, and land management. At Universität Potsdam since 2018 (following a PhD in remote sensing there), Taylor develops scalable workflows for big geospatial datasets, spatial statistics, and time-series machine learning. Their work bridges rigorous academic research and practical applications, from field-focused erosion studies to regional hydrology and climate-extreme mapping. Comfortable as an independent consultant and educator earlier in their career, they combine strong technical implementation skills with clear scientific communication. Taylor’s public portfolio highlights reproducible code and tools for processing large satellite archives, reflecting a commitment to open, scalable science. Colleagues describe them as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns complex earth-science questions into operational data products.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Universität PotsdamGeology, Geology at Middlebury CollegeMaster's degree, Master's degree at UC Santa Barbara
English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish
Github Skills (36)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tasmi/earthengine_code_snippets
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:43 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
tasmi/tasmi.github.io
Sep 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:124 commits, 144 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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