Patricia Castellanos
Research Meteorologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatricia Castellanos is a Research Meteorologist at NASA’s GMAO with 11+ years of experience building aerosol modeling, radiative transfer, and satellite remote sensing tools for Earth system modeling and mission planning. She has developed aerosol assimilation capabilities in GEOS, built instrument simulators for OSSEs, and supported major missions including TEMPO, PACE, and the AOS constellation. Patricia blends deep domain expertise from a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with hands-on software and machine learning development to improve retrievals and scale modeling workflows. Her background spans academia and government labs across the US and Europe, where she constrained emissions and air quality trends using satellite observations and chemical transport models. Colleagues rely on her ability to translate complex atmospheric science into production-ready algorithms and mission-ready simulations.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkBachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at University of Maryland
Github Skills (9)
atmosphere10
orbital-mechanics10
astrodynamics9
climate-model9
atmospheric-modelling8
geos8
autopilot7
rover7
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GEOS-ESM/PyVLIDORT
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
Python VLIDORT
Contributions:2 PRs, 115 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
GEOS-ESM/GMAOpyobs
Feb 2023 - Jun 2026
GMAO pyobs
Contributions:13 releases, 25 reviews, 114 PRs in 3 years 4 months
python
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