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Ryan G. Knox

Software Developer

Building 084, Room 0144

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-495-2153

rgknox@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

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  • Education
  • Experience
  • Awards
  • Scholarly Service
  • Technical Strengths
  • Professional Activities

Biography

Ryan Knox conducts research in the earth systems disciplines of eco-hydrology and terrestrial vegetation dynamics. Dr. Knox currently participates in two broader research initiatives, the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment Tropics (NGEE-T) and the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM).  His primary objectives in both projects revolve around the development and deployment of the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES).  FATES simulates the processes of terrestrial vegetation, such as the growth, mortality, disturbance and recruitment.  FATES is powerful in that it leverages an advanced approach to scaling (based on ED), where processes connected to individual plants are resolved in such a way that simulations can occur at a global scale, while still capturing the biodiversity and variability of the Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems.

Publications

  • Researcher ID
  • Google Scholar

Education

  • Ph.D. Hydrology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013
  • B.S.E. Civil and Environmental & Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 2002

Experience

  • Software Developer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, 2015-Present
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Earth Sciences Division (ESD) - Climate and Carbon Sciences, 2013-2015
  • Postdoctoral Researcher - Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy Schools Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2013
  • Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA, 2004-2012
  • Research Assistant, University of Connecticut - Storrs, CT, 2002-2004

Awards

  • Member, Chi Epsilon National Civil Engineering Honor Society
  • Recipient, American Geophysical Union Outstanding Student Paper Award, 2003 Joint Assembly
  • Recipient, Presidential Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004-2005

Scholarly Service

  • Reviewer, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)
  • Reviewer, Journal of Climate

Technical Strengths

  • Co-Developer, Terrestrial Ecosystem Biophysics
  • Ecosystem Demography Model 2.1 (EDM)
  • Parametrization of terrestrial heat and mass transfer, integration techniques.
  • High Performance Computing
  • Parallelization and numerical optimization techniques, vectorization, procedural optimization, input/output, memory handling.
  • Computer Language, Protocols & APIs
  • C, Fortran 90, Matlab/Octave, OpenGL, Visual Basic.
  • Message Passing Interface (MPI), Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), Network Common Data Format (NetCDF), OpenM
  • Sensor Technology
  • Campbell data loggers, sensor system design, eddy covariance, heat flux plates, radiation sensors, dielectric soil moisture probes.
  • Visualization Techniques
  • Designer, Ecosystem Demography
  • Display Interface (EDDI)
  • Server Administration, Information Systems Processing
  • Distributed HPC Linux computer clusters.
  • Techniques in: Satellite Retrieval, Spectral Correction, Geospatial Mosaicing, Classification, Filtering, MODIS, Landsat, SRTM, TRMM, etc.

Professional Activities

  • Repository Administrator and Overseer for the Ecosystem Demography Model 2.2 (ED2)
  • Organizer and Host of the 2013 Ecosystem Demography Model+ Users and Trainee Meeting at LBNL
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