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The official Jupyter Conference
Aug 21-22, 2018: Training
Aug 22-24, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Seth Lawler

Seth Lawler
Consulting Engineer, Dewberry

Seth Lawler is an engineering consultant with expertise in coastal and riverine surface water modeling. A subject-matter expert in scientific programming with experience developing and scaling serial applications for parallel processing in high-performance and cloud computing environments, Seth has worked on wide-ranging projects at the national, state, and local level, including the development and quality control of tools in use by the US Army Corps of Engineers and the United States Geological Survey. He is currently completing a PhD in civil engineering at George Mason University, where he is conducting research with the National Weather Service to enhance modeling and forecasting capabilities in areas influenced by coastal and fluvial flooding mechanisms.

Sessions

1:50pm–2:30pm Friday, August 24, 2018
Using JupyterLab for flood map development: Approaches for improving productivity and reproducibility
Data visualization, Reproducible research and open science, Usage and application
 Location: Murray Hill Level: Beginner
Seth Lawler (Dewberry)
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Creating flood maps for coastal and riverine communities requires geospatial processing, statistical analysis, finite element modeling, and a team of specialists working together. Seth Lawler explains how using the feature-rich JupyterLab to develop tools, share code with team members, and document workflows used in the creation of flood maps improves productivity and reproducibility. Read more.