Carlos Rivero

Jacksonville, North Carolina Area United States

Physical Scientist at NOAA Fisheries

Agriculture / Forests / Fisheries

I started my career over 20 years ago working as a geographic information systems analyst on a Digital Alpha system linking models from various disciplines to support the comparative analysis of an oil spill in an ecosystem hundreds of miles away. I taught myself to use Unix, C, FORTRAN, ARC/INFO 6, and a quirky little scripting language called awk to tie hydrological, ecological, toxicological, fate, and transport models together to explore the effects an oil spill would have in Tampa Bay, Florida. Since then, I have worked on GIS/remote sensing, data integration and consolidation, process improvement, and scientific data analysis projects to my hearts content. Little did I know this ...