Scott D. Peckham

Experience

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  Rivix, LLC

  Jan 1998 - now

  CEO and Founder

  Rivix, LLC is a software development company founded in 1998. Our flagship product is RiverTools, a user-friendly, point-and-click GIS environment for digital terrain analysis as it relates to surface hydrology. RiverTools 4.0 was released in 2014 and is described under Projects below and at www.rivix.com.

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  University of Colorado Boulder

  Aug 1999 - now

  Senior Research Scientist

  I am currently a co-PI on a model integration project called MINT that is funded by DARPA's World Modelers program, as well as two projects called BALTO and ASSET that are funded by NSF's EarthCube program. Over the last several years, I've been a co-PI on several other NSF EarthCube projects, including a large project called Earth System Bridge that I led, focused on Earth System modeling, as well as projects called OntoSoft/GeoSoft, GeoTrust and Geosemantics. Much of this work involved the development and extension of the Scientific Variables Ontology (SVO) which was created to resolve a problem called semantic mediation that faces all model and data integration projects. EarthCube is an effort to develop advances in cyber-infrastructure that will enable greater and simpler interoperability between models, data sets, frameworks, web services and other resources that geoscientists typically need to connect in order to do their work. Show less

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  CSDMS (Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System)

  Apr 2007 - Sept 2013

  Chief Software Architect

  CSDMS is a large, NSF-funded project that began in 2007 and serves the earth surface modeling community. Designed and implemented much of the CSDMS architecture, including the Basic Model Interface (BMI) and the CSDMS Standard Names.