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Rich Pauloo, PhD

Data Scientist

Hi 👋, my name is Rich.

I spend most of my days writing code (mostly R, Python, SQL) to clean, visualize, and model data. I have a PhD in computational hydrogeology, where I simulated and visualized 3D contaminant transport in aquifers.

I love to surf 🏄‍, climb mountains 🧗🏼, tinker on bikes 🚴‍, read and learn new things 📚, play guitar 🎸, and cook 🧑‍🍳.

Interests

  • 👨‍💻 data science
  • ⛰️ expedition behavior
  • 🧮 mathematical modeling
  • 📡 sensor networks

Education

  • PhD in Computational Hydrogeology, 2020

    University of California Davis

  • BA in Integrative Biology, minor in Conflict Resolution, 2011

    University of California Berkeley

Projects

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All Data science Water Web

r4wrds

R for water Resources Data Science.

gsp dry wells .com

Domestic well failure prediction and cost estimates in critically overdrafted basins.

low cost sensor networks

Real-time sensor networks and dashboards for monitoring environmental data.

cal water quality .com

Automated water quality reports for > 3,000 California public water systems. 🏆 Winner 2019 California Water Data Challenge.

interpretable random forests

Cumulative variable importance.

textme

Text yourself from R when long running jobs complete.

Tulare basin TDS

Groundwater quality data visualization.

CA well report filter

Upload a shapefile of a study area to return clean OSWCR data from that area.

CA well reports

Exploratory data analysis of California's Online State Well Completion Report Database.

Fatal landslide prediction

Using random forests, boosting, LDA, and QDA with variable probability thresholds for global landslide classification.

AbstR

An adaptation of PapR to 30,000 American Geophysical Union abstracts.

Publications

Aakash Ahamed, Rosemary Knight, Sarfaraz Alam, Rich Pauloo, Forrest Melton (2022). Assessing the utility of remote sensing data to accurately estimate changes in groundwater storage. STOTEN.

PDF Code DOI

Rich Pauloo, PhD, Graham E. Fogg, Zhilin Guo, Christopher V. Henri (2021). Hydraulic Gradients Modulate Non-Fickian Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media. WRR.

PDF Poster DOI

Rich Pauloo, PhD, Graham E. Fogg, Thomas Harter, Zhilin Guo (2020). Anthropogenic Basin Closure and Groundwater Salinization (ABCSAL). JoH.

PDF Code Dataset DOI

Andrew Calderwood, Rich Pauloo, PhD, Graham E. Fogg (2020). Low-Cost, Open Source Wireless Sensor Network for Real-Time, Scalable Groundwater Monitoring. Water.

PDF DOI Code Project

Rich Pauloo, PhD, Graham E. Fogg, Helen Dahlke, Alvar Escriva-Bou, Amanda Fencl, Hervé Guillon (2020). Domestic Well Vulnerability to Drought Duration and Unsustainable Groundwater Management in California's Central Valley. ERL.

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Recent Posts

Parquet, SQL, DuckDB, arrow, dbplyr and R
A water quality portal for California
Install RStudio Server on Microsoft Azure
Automating R scripts on Linux with cron
Migrating from Jekyll/Github to Hugo/Netlify
How to link a custom domain to Github Pages with HTTPS
Race to the Bottom
Using Twilio To Text Myself After Long Running Jobs
Text analysis of the Mueller Report
Reflections on the 2018 California Water Data Challenge
Installing the R kernel in Jupyter Lab
Aquifer thickness calculated from ~300,000 well logs
Reflections on Rstudio::conf2018
Tidy chi-squared stats in infer
Using tidytext to make word clouds

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