Ryan Riggs

PHD Candidate at Texas A&M College of Geosciences
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Experience

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • PHD Candidate
      • Aug 2019 - Present

      Bryan/College Station, Texas Area • Develop, automate, and run analytical models using R and Python. • Optimize models using various functions (e.g. piecewise linear regression, machine learning). • Efficiently analyze and visualize big datasets of time-series data effectively. • Presented research to technical and lay audiences at 9 conferences, winning 4 awards for best presentation. • Built a cloud computing based web application to estimate streamflow across North American rivers. • Compiled the largest… Show more • Develop, automate, and run analytical models using R and Python. • Optimize models using various functions (e.g. piecewise linear regression, machine learning). • Efficiently analyze and visualize big datasets of time-series data effectively. • Presented research to technical and lay audiences at 9 conferences, winning 4 awards for best presentation. • Built a cloud computing based web application to estimate streamflow across North American rivers. • Compiled the largest publicly available global river gauge database, improving data access by 33%. • Analyzed nearly 500M daily global river gauge measurements from 1900-2021 for trends and insights. • Authored an R package of web-scraping scripts to access real-time global river gauge data. • Created a Google Earth Engine algorithm to measure 300M+ global river widths from satellite imagery. • Constructed a Bayesian optimization algorithm to estimate streamflow for an upcoming NASA satellite mission. Show less

    • United States
    • Retail
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Geospatial Data Science Intern
      • May 2023 - Aug 2023

      • H-E-B is a grocery chain and is the largest privately owned company in Texas. • Characterized climate change’s impact on H-E-B suppliers, stores, and warehouses. • Worked with Databricks and AWS to efficiently analyze geospatial and time-series data. • Geocoded nearly 30K supplier locations. • Authored a machine learning model to estimate H-E-B’s current and future natural disaster risk for multiple climate change scenarios. • Used R and ArcGIS to analyze and visualize model… Show more • H-E-B is a grocery chain and is the largest privately owned company in Texas. • Characterized climate change’s impact on H-E-B suppliers, stores, and warehouses. • Worked with Databricks and AWS to efficiently analyze geospatial and time-series data. • Geocoded nearly 30K supplier locations. • Authored a machine learning model to estimate H-E-B’s current and future natural disaster risk for multiple climate change scenarios. • Used R and ArcGIS to analyze and visualize model outputs relative to H-E-B’s infrastructure. • Advised operations on how to improve company sustainability (e.g. solar panel placement). • Created an intuitive and interactive ESRI Story Map to help disseminate key project findings with stakeholders. Show less

    • United States
    • Civil Engineering
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Staff Geologist
      • Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

      Houston, Texas Area • Managed field operations for phase II and III Environmental Site Assessments. • Led teams to measure and analyze soil and groundwater contaminants for 12+ petrochemical refineries. • Conducted 100+ Phase II and III Environmental Site Assessments. • Wrote work proposals for potential clients and aided in business development.

    • Manager
      • May 2015 - Aug 2017

      Huntsville, Texas I managed employees, sales and customer service for the largest recreational scuba center in the state of Texas.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • Lab assistant
      • Jan 2016 - May 2016

      Baton Rouge, Louisiana I correlated seismic profiles with crosslines and updated research maps of the Ross Sea using ArcMaps.

    • Student Worker
      • Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

      Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area I tutored at-risk youth in math and science as well as input attendance statistics for the program.

Education

  • Texas A&M University
    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography
    2019 - 2024
  • Louisiana State University
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Geology/Earth Science, General
    2013 - 2017

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