Science Collaborators We are fortunate to collaborate with a number of national labs, scientists, national institutions, and university labs. Below are a list of our wonderful collaborators with links to respective project pages. Los Alamos National Labs Mark PetersenResearch ScientistMark Petersen works at the intersection of applied mathematics, oceanography, and high performance computing. He has been responsible, with others, for MPAS-Ocean development from its inception in 2010. His daily work includes designing algorithms, maintaining code, model verification and validation, computational performance, analyzing output, and scientific publications. Mark received a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and joined Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2005. He enjoys playing music, running, and camping with his family in the mountains of New Mexico.Rod LinnTeam Leader, Atmospheric Modeling and Weapons Phenomenology TeamRodman Linn (Rod) is a senior scientist a in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Rod has been performing research in the area of wildland fire modeling since 1995. For over two decades, he has served as principal investigator for a process-based coupled fire/atmosphere model, FIRETEC. Rod leads LANL efforts to use next-generation process-based wildfire models for the study of fundamental wildfire behaviour, evaluation of prescribed fire tactics, understanding influences of complex environmental conditions on fire behaviour, risk assessment for critical facilities and wildfire’s interaction with other landscape disturbances such as insects or drought. Phillip WolframResearch ScientistMathew MaltrudResearch Scientist, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group HiLat Institute Wilbert WiejerPhysical Oceanographer / Climate ScientistWilbert Weijer is a PI of DOE's HiLAT-RASM project, which is a collaboration between scientists from LANL and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and several academic partners. The team is highly interdisciplinary, and we are investigating feedbacks and impacts of high-latitude climate change.From 2009 to 2013 Weijer was a part-time research affiliate at the New Mexico Consortium, working on an NSF-funded project to study decadal variability in the North Pacific.Before coming to Los Alamos Weijer was a postdoc in the group of Sarah Gille at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2003-2005). There he studied the response of the Southern Ocean to high-frequency wind forcing. His study of topographically trapped barotropic modes started my fascination with the Argentine Basin.Prajvala KurtakotiPostdoctoral Research FellowPrajvala Kurtakoti is a a physical oceanographer with a keen interest in studying ocean circulation, vertical stratification, mixing, coupling between ocean, atmosphere and sea ice, upper ocean temperature and salinity distribution, and their control on earth's past, present and future climate, its variations and predictions. She wants to use in situ and remote observations along with coupled Earth System Model (ESM) simulations to improve our understanding of the climate system.Her Engineering Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science has immensely contributed to her personal and professional development by giving her opportunities to work on advanced research problems. During her undergraduate degree in engineering, she got interested in numerical modeling, which led her to the exciting field of physical oceanography. Data Science at Scale James (Jim) AhrensDirector of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Information Science and Technology Institute and Data and Visualization Project Lead for the U.S. Exascale Computing ProjectExperienced Data Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in an research and development environment. Skilled in Modeling and Simulation, Large Scale Visualization and Analysis, and Python. Strong information technology professional with a Computer Science PhD from University of Washington.David RogersLead for Data Science at Scale Team at Los Alamos National LaboratoryDavid H. Rogers is the team lead of the data science at Scale Team, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA. He now focuses on interactive analysis tools that integrate design, scalable analytics, and principles of cognitive science to promote scientific discovery. Rogers received his M.F.A. degree in literature from Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, USA. Contact him at dhr@lanl.govJohn PatchettStaff ScientistJohn Patchett received the BA degree, in 1995 and has worked with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, New Mexico, since 1997. He received the MS degree in computer science from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2011, and the PhD degree from TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 2017. Currently, he is the deputy team leader for LANL's Data Science at Scale Team and is the Production Visualization Project Lead for LANL's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program. Sculpting Vis Collaborative Daniel KeefeProfessor, Department of Computer Science and EngineeringKiet TranPh.D. Student (3rd Yr), Department of Computer Science and EngineeringSean DorrPh.D. Student (3rd Yr), Department of Computer Science and EngineeringBridger HermanPh.D. Student (5th Yr), Department of Computer Science and EngineeringZahara SpilkaPh.D. Student (2nd Yr), Department of Computer Science and EngineeringMorgan TurnerPostdoctoral Fellow NOAA / CIRES Rick SaltusSenior Research Scientist, CIRES, NOAA
