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James Runnalls

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James Runnalls

Software Developer

Abteilung Oberflächengewässer

Über mich

James is a software developer in the SURF department who supports a number of research groups with developing, maintaining, and updating open-source scientific software.

Key Skills

  • Experienced at data wrangling, analysis, visualization, and prediction (Python, Matlab, R). Particular experience with environmental data from in-situ monitoring, satellites, and hydrodynamic models.
  • Front-end development of interactive websites for displaying environmental data using frameworks (React.js) and native Javascript.
  • Expertise in building custom, interactive web-based visualizations for communicating scientific data.
  • Full design, development, deployment, and support of RESTful APIs (NodeJS & PHP).
  • Deployment and administration of Linux web servers, with particular experience of cloud platforms (AWS, Heroku).

Example Projects

  • Lead developer of Datalakes an open data portal for Swiss limnological data. Datalakes combines global best practices for open data (FAIR) with cutting-edge visualization, reproducibility, and accessibility.
  • Core developer on the SenCast python package for processing Sentinel 2 & 3 satellite data.
  • Maintainer of the Meteolakes 3D operational lake forecast
  • Maintainer of the Simstrat 1D operational lake simulation

Responsibilities

  • Further development and maintenance of existing scientific software.
  • Development of new software tools, e.g., for data acquisition, access to databases, data management, data visualization, and operation of numerical models
  • Independent planning, execution and quality assurance of software development projects
  • Support and education of scientists in complying with good practice in the development and maintenance of their own software and in publishing datasets
  • Support of Eawag-wide collaboration among software developers and data scientists
  • Co-ordinate hardware requirements of research teams with informatics department

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Projekte

Heterogene Datenplattform für die operative Modellierung und Vorhersage von Schweizer Seen
Ein eindimensionales physikalisches Seemodell, das mit biogeochemischen Modellen gekoppelt werden kann.

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Publikationen

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Odermatt, D.; Runnalls, J.; Sturm, J.; Damm, A. (2020) SenCast: Copernicus Satellitendaten auf Knopfdruck, Geomatik Schweiz, Géomatique Suisse, Geomatica Svizzera, 118(9), 12-16, Institutional Repository

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Adresse

E-Mail: james.runnalls@eawag.ch
Telefon: +41 58 765 5589
Fax: +41 58 765 2168
Adresse: Eawag
Seestrasse 79
6047 Kastanienbaum
Büro: SW B04

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