How did I get here?

Hello! My name is Scott, and I currently work as a Research Analyst at the University of Vermont in beautiful Burlington, VT. When I'm not out biking and hiking around the Green Mountain State or tending to my garden, I mostly find myself in front of the computer. I'm a complete nerd when it comes to hydrology, mapmaking, statistics, computation, and scripting. This website hosts some of my projects in those areas that don't fit neatly on LinkedIn or a GitHub readme.

A friend of mine once told me to "follow what makes you curious," and I find myself returning to those words whenever I think of my academic and professional path. As a high schooler who loved building stage scenery, I decided to go to college for engineering. As a freshman concerned with sustainability and community, I pursued Civil Engineeering for its focus on improving the quality of life of those around me. I loved all my water-themed coursework, and after some postgrad traveling, I landed my first job working as a consultant to FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program. That job was AWESOME and exposed me to hundreds of hydrologic and hydraulic models, mapping tools, and furthered my scripting abilities. After a while, my curiosity for hydrologic nonstationarity and novel modeling tools got the better of me, and I enrolled at the University of Vermont to work on generating probabilisitc floodplain maps for 30,000+ miles of streams in Vermont. In my thesis project, I've developed a novel statistical hydrology method, and my current research is on improving the channel routing module of the National Water Model.

2018 BS, Civil Engineering and Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison

2023 MS, Civil Engineering University of Vermont

Python (expert)

R

MATLAB

VBA

Git

SQL

QGIS (Expert)

ArcGIS Pro

GDAL/OGR

GRASS GIS

SAGA

TauDEM

HEC-RAS

HEC-HMS

HEC-SSP