Ryan Riggs
PHD Candidate at Texas A&M College of Geosciences- Claim this Profile
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Texas A&M College of Geosciences
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United States
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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PHD Candidate
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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
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H-E-B
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United States
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Geospatial Data Science Intern
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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
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Tolunay-Wong Engineers, Inc.
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United States
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Civil Engineering
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100 - 200 Employee
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Staff Geologist
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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.
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Manager
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May 2015 - Aug 2017
Huntsville, Texas I managed employees, sales and customer service for the largest recreational scuba center in the state of Texas.
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LSU Department of Geology & Geophysics
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United States
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Higher Education
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Lab assistant
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Jan 2016 - May 2016
Baton Rouge, Louisiana I correlated seismic profiles with crosslines and updated research maps of the Ross Sea using ArcMaps.
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Student Worker
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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.
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Education
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Texas A&M University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography -
Louisiana State University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Geology/Earth Science, General