David Blodgett
Civil Engineer at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Blodgett is a civil engineer and hydro-informatics specialist with 13+ years at the U.S. Geological Survey, combining water resources engineering expertise with program-level coordination of national water data systems. He leads modernization of the National Water Information System’s water use subsystems and manages National Water Census data services, bridging hydrology and ecology modelers to hard-to-access climate and spatial datasets. Based in Madison, he serves as the USGS liaison to the Water Use and Availability Program and represents the agency in standards bodies like the Open Geospatial Consortium and the Advisory Committee on Water Information. A hands-on contributor to open-source geospatial tooling (notably enhancements to OWSLib), David blends policy, data stewardship, and backend development to make complex environmental data more discoverable and usable.
13 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Water Resources Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Water Resources Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (6)
wss10
ogc10
python10
ws10
xml-parsing9
logging7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
geopython/OWSLib
Mar 2013 - Jul 2015
OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service (hence OWS) interface standards, and their related content models.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the OWSLib library, a Python package for interacting with OGC web services. Their work included adding examples for using Web Coverage Service (WCS), enhancing the ISO metadata parser to extract service identification information, and refactoring code to implement logging for debugging purposes. The commits demonstrate a focus on expanding the library's functionality and improving its maintainability.
geospatialpythonwebserviceogcogcapi
USGS-R/HUCAgg
Oct 2015 - Nov 2022
HUC aggregator
Contributions:1 release, 66 commits, 12 PRs in 7 years 2 months
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