Trevor James Smith
Trevor James Smith is a climate change research software developer in Montreal, Quebec. He holds a B.Sc. Hons. in Environmental Sciences and Political Science and an M.Sc. in Geography, Planning and Environmental Studies from Concordia University. Trevor has worked in various fields as a contract researcher examining Canadian telecommunication infrastructure, indigenous-led GIS/mapping initiatives, and environmental disaster hazard and risk mapping. For the past 5 years, he has been a member of the climate platforms, data, and operations team at Ouranos Inc.
https://github.com/Ouranosinc/xclim
https://github.com/bird-house/finch
https://github.com/pangeo-data/climpred
https://github.com/geopython/pywps
https://github.com/gicait/geoserver-rest
https://github.com/pyOpenSci/python-package-guide
https://github.com/CSHS-CWRA/RavenPy
Session
Performing climate science within the context of climate change requires creative solutions to challenges such as data collection and storage management, optimizations for better memory and CPU usage, in addition to ensuring that analysis outputs are trustworthy. This talk will showcase xclim and finch, two pieces of software built for performing climate analyses on large datasets using Python, WPS, and the PANGEO software stack of technologies.