Dan Nowacki nowacki.org
I’m an oceanographer with the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, though I am currently based in Santa Cruz, California. I received my Ph.D. from the School of Oceanography (Sediment Dynamics Group) at the University of Washington in Seattle. My M.S.E. is in Civil & Environmental Engineering (UW-EFM), also from the UW. Previously, I was a hydrologist at the USGS’s National Research Program in Reston, VA. I was born and raised in the state of Maine.
Research
Generally, I am interested in the sediment transport and morphology of coastal and riverine systems. I’m currently involved with studies in Jamaica Bay and Great South Bay, NY; Grand Bay, AL/MS; Chincoteague Bay, MD/VA; and the Amazon River, Brazil. Past study sites include the tidal Mekong River, Vietnam; Willapa Bay, WA; the Columbia River, WA; and the Florida Everglades. I’ve also been part of studies on the New Zealand continental shelf and other interesting places around the world.
In addition to these active field programs, I use various numerical models to answer scientific questions about sediment transport, wave interaction with vegetation, coastal vulnerability and resilience, and more. These models include SWASH, SWAN, ROMS, Delft3D, and junky little hand-coded numbers.
Coding
I do the majority of my data analysis within the scientific Python stack. Some of my current computing interests lie in data standardization, distribution, and reproducibility. I used to use MATLAB quite a bit; you might find some useful snippets on my codes page. A portion of the code I have written as part of my work at the USGS is available on GitHub.
Contact
My C.V. is available here (updated March 2018); feel free to email me at dan @ this domain.
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