J. Bryan Curtis Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Boulder, CO, US

Vail, Colorado, United States

Performing data transformations and creative analytics to conserve water within the Eagle River Watershed. Setting water meter rates that promote conservation while simultaneously improving the fiscal health of the District. Utilizing sound and objectionable data pipelines built with reproducible data engineering and science. Ensuring water is available.

Pullman, Washington, United States

Weather Data Scientist for AgWeatherNet (AWN) - Washington State University responsible for an "end-to-end" quality assurance and control system for AWN's meteorological observation network of over 220 weather stations across the State of Washington. I quantify uncertainty in weather observations through direct hardware inter-comparisons and statistical.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Designed and installed a snow course network of 45 snow board sampling locations for storm specific measurements of snow water equivalent (SWE) and snow depth within the Como Creek water catchment between the CU.
• Derived wind-shelter indices, relevant to subalpine preferential snow accumulation, using a combination of manual snow observations, forest structure, topography, and wind flow models (linearized with surface roughness.
• Incorporated spatially distributed observations of newly deposited snow (storm specific SWE and depth), representing spatial SWE and precipitation inputs, into the Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM).
• Compared spatially distributed snow board measurements to nearby Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL, Niwot) to assess the spatial representativeness of SNOTEL SWE and depth.
• Designed and built precipitation gauge demonstration, “gauge errors during wind and snow”, performed at a Boulder Public Library public outreach event.
• Developed a Bayesian hierarchical regression statistical model to correct a long-term Belfort weighing precipitation gauge with information from co-located disdrometer (hydrometeor size and fall speed), U.S. Climate.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Teaching Assistant: Principles of Climate (GEOG 3601, CU Boulder)
• Taught the Mountain Hydrometeorology section of the course (one full week). Explained principles of mountain water resources and orographic precipitation.Co-Instructor: Advanced Snow Methods (GEOG 5100, CU Boulder)
• Integration of manual and radar snowfall measurements for the estimation of snow water equivalent and snowpack developmentTeaching Assistant: Landscapes and Water (GEOG 1011, CU Boulder)
• Ran laboratory classes and field trips on: streamflow and hydrological measurements, stream channels and fluvial landforms, glacial landforms, and river restoration. Demonstrated the use of hydrographs and hyetographs.
• Instructed and facilitated physical geography labs with mapping focusTeaching Assistant: Biometeorology (GEOG 4201, CU Boulder)

Berkeley, California, United States

• Provided general field support, including collecting micrometeorological and environmental data, installing remote site power, and heavy equipment logistics.
• Installed subsurface temperature probes for permafrost monitoring.

Berkeley, California, United States

• Promoted to senior level February 2014
• Increased the field productivity of the Department of Energy’s Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) - Arctic Climate and Biogeochemistry programs that led to recognition with a SPOT award. Duties included soil.
• Designed, built and deployed NGEE-Arctic Tram, a fully autonomous micrometeorological platform with spatiotemporal sensing capabilities. Responsible for maintaining the NGEE-Arctic Tram which included installing and.
• Managed, processed, analyzed, and presented field data. Created 900 MHz radio and Wi-Fi links for field transmission of data that was autonomously collected with Campbell Scientific software (Loggernet). Responsible.
• Contributed material and visualizations for grant preparations and project reports.

Davis, California, United States

• Junior Specialist for the Strauss Lab in the Evolution and Ecology Department
• Conducted multiple field, lab, and greenhouse projects that involved substantial amounts of data collection, entry, and organization.
• Collected soil, plant trait, and animal herbivory information for project investigating plant adaptation to serpentine soils in the Sierra Nevada and Coast Range of California.
• Managed large field experiment at Bodega Bay Marine Reserve (coastal highlands) that investigated how the relationship between phylogenetic distance and ecological similarity controls community assembly. Work involved.
• Assisted with field surveys and seed collection of invasive Brassica sp. populations.

Crested Butte, Colorado, United States

• Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA)
• Conducted mountain top vegetation surveys and weather station maintenance.

Master'S Degree, Climatology

Activities and Societies: Thesis - “Improving the Quality of Subalpine Precipitation Measurements with Hydrometeor Information and a.

Bachelor'S Degree, Ecology

Activities and Societies: Minors - Geographic Information Technology and GeographySelected Coursework: • Principles of Ecology (BIOL 330).

Snow

Activities and Societies: Course Outcomes: • Excavate and prepare a snow pit • Measure profiles of density, snow temperature, grain size.