Stonie Cooper
Stonie Cooper joined the Unidata Program Center staff on October 3rd, 2022, as a
software engineer. Stonie comes from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), where
he was a faculty applied meteorologist/climatologist, managing the
Nebraska Mesonet.
Stonie earned a bachelor's degree in natural science education and meteorology at
UNL before a brief stray into atmospheric chemistry as a PhD student at Georgia
Tech. He returned to UNL's School of Natural Resources to finish his doctoral work,
focusing on climate assessments and impacts. He's spent most of his career in the
private sector, with experience in operational meteorology, severe weather
forecasting, climatology, and climate adjacent industries. His technical expertise
in satellite communications, IT security, data warehousing, and machine learning
adaptations will all come into play at the Program Center.
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