Joanmarie
Del Vecchio
Telling interdisciplinary landscape stories with large datasets.
Joanmarie
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Last updated 08/28/2024
About Me
My name is Joanmarie Del Vecchio (pronouns: she/her), and I am an Assistant Professor at the College of William & Mary. I am a geoscientist who investigates how climate change has shaped landscapes, both past and present.
Bringing computational methods to geomorphology
I use multispectral and topographic data to quantify landscape form and change. To perform this task at the scale required to derive mechanistic explanations for spatial trends in landscape form, I use high-resolution datasets at large spatial scales. I write algorithms to analyze these vast datasets, and perform these calculations in advanced computing environments.
I am the lead PI on the NSF-funded Python Computational Geomorphology Software System (PyCoGSS) project; I am also a co-PI representing PyCoGSS on a "Pathfinder" project funded by the National Discovery Cloud for Climate, an NSF initiative to democratize access to climate data and computing resources. Find more info here
If you're curious, you can watch my keynote address at Colgate Technology Immersion Week 2022, explaining these big data techniques.
Bringing coding to the undergraduate classroom
Exploratory data analysis in Python (or other languages) is an essential skill for the modern geoscientist. Coding also allows a student's research output to grow alongside their curiosity (i.e. "scalable" methods). Watch my webinar faciliated by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers to see why it's so important and exciting for me to teach coding to novices.
