Colin Zarzycki
Associate Professor At Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolColin Zarzycki is an associate professor at Penn State with 11 years of experience bridging theoretical and applied atmospheric science through high-resolution numerical modeling and data analytics. He has advanced variable-resolution global modeling and contributed to next-generation weather and climate model development at NCAR, focusing on tropical cyclones, high-impact winter storms, and subseasonal forecasting. Skilled in Python, Fortran, NCL, and HPC workflows, he combines technical coding with stakeholder-oriented tool development for operational forecasting and infrastructure planning. A seasoned communicator and conference speaker, he also teaches and mentors the next generation of atmospheric scientists while maintaining an active research portfolio. Notably, his work includes stress-testing HPC systems and co-developing software to assess extremes in gridded model data, highlighting a practical focus on robust, usable science.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Atmospheric Science, PhD, Atmospheric Science at University of MichiganB.S., Atmospheric Science, B.S., Atmospheric Science at Cornell UniversityM.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (33)
atmosphere10
python10
modeling-tool10
raspberry-pi10
geoscience9
asyncio9
mqtt9
fortran9
snl-applications9
earth9
discrete-event-simulation9
iot9
home-automation9
ugrid9
hydrodynamics9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zarzycki/ncl-zarzycki
Oct 2017 - Aug 2025
Contributions:192 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
zarzycki/esta
Jun 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 4 years 9 months
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