Ryan Abernathey is a Climate Scientist, open-source software developer and the CEO & co-founder of Earthmover, a company trying to simplify how scientific computing is done. Ryan also co-founded the Pangeo project in 2016, one of the major efforts to build better tools for scientific computing today.

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(00:00) - Introduction

(00:45) - Sponsor: Nimbo by Kermap

(02:20) - Ryan describes himself

(03:11) - From Oceanography to data infrastructure

(06:11) - Building an Company around Open Source

(13:33) - Product

(16:28) - The current Earth Observation data stack

(20:39) - Issues with today's approaches

(30:30) - Zarr

(33:30) - Friction with new technology

(38:23) - Climate science vs geospatial

(44:48) - Different sciences make different assumptions

(47:17) - Modeling Level of Details

(59:50) - Book & Podcast recommendations

(01:05:37) - Support the podcast on Patreon!

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