Ryan Pavlick
Program Scientist at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Pavlick is a Program Scientist at NASA with 14 years of experience using airborne and satellite remote sensing—particularly imaging spectroscopy—to quantify biodiversity and its connections to the broader Earth system. He has led field campaigns across six continents and contributed to flagship NASA efforts including OCO-3 and the Surface Biology and Geology mission, bridging instrument development, campaign logistics, and scientific analysis. Trained with a PhD in Earth Science and postdoctoral work at Max Planck and JPL, he combines rigorous ecosystem modeling with hands-on expertise in airborne sensor operations. Based in Maryland, he brings a systems-engineering perspective (MIT training) to mission planning and data-driven ecological research. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate complex remote-sensing instrumentation into operational field programs that deliver reproducible biodiversity products for global-scale science and decision-making.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems, Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInternational Max Planck Research School on Earth System ModellingThe University of Maryland, College ParkPhD, Earth Science, PhD, Earth Science at Universität Hamburg
Italian
Github Skills (56)
hadoop-mapreduce10
sublime-text10
wait10
timer10
bash10
android-development10
macos-big-sur10
period10
macos10
python-data10
mongodb10
syntax-highlighting10
iterm10
mysql9
postgresql9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rpavlick/rpavlick.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 pushes in 6 years
ryanpavlick/hyplan
Jan 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:8 releases, 2 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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