Kristen Foley
Statistician
Apex, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristen Foley is a research statistician at the U.S. EPA with nearly two decades of expertise applying advanced statistical methods to emissions, meteorology, and air quality research. With a Ph.D. in Statistics from NC State and a decade-plus of hands-on federal experience, she combines deep domain knowledge with practical software contributions to scientific modeling. Her open-source work on the EPA’s CMAQ model—fixing index overflow bugs and implementing spec-driven options—shows she bridges statistical research and production-grade back-end code. Based in Apex, NC, Kristen is adept at turning complex environmental data into robust, auditable solutions that directly support regulatory science and decision-making.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Statistics, Ph.D., Statistics at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (10)
fortran10
numerical10
numerical-methods10
numeric10
scientific-computing10
modeling10
data-integration9
integrations9
system-integration9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
USEPA/CMAQ
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
Code for U.S. EPA’s Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) for estimating ozone, particulates, toxics, and deposition of acids and nutrients at neighborhood to global scales.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 16 reviews, 1590 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kristen primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements within the CMAQ (Community Multiscale Air Quality) model, particularly concerning utilities like `hr2day` and `combine`. Their contributions involved implementing optional settings from the spec_def file and correcting index overflow errors, indicating a deep understanding of the model's inner workings and data processing. The user also made code modifications to the AERO_DATA.F file and worked on integrating updates from other branches, suggesting a role in maintaining and integrating code within the larger CMAQ codebase.
atmosphereepamodeling-toolbase-codeclimate-science
kmfoley/AMET
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 25 days
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