Andrew Scherer

Physical Oceanographer
Software Developer

Research

Shelf Nitrate Response to Upwelling on the Oregon Coast

Nitrate is a key nutrient for marine ecosystems, particularly in the Pacific Northwest coastal ocean. Using nearly a decade of in-situ nitrate data from profilers on the Newport Hydrographic Line, I am investigating how physical processes such as coastal, wind-driven upwelling effect the nitrate concentration on the Oregon continental shelf.

Software

pycoare

pycoare is a Python package for calculating various air-sea fluxes from bulk variables (e.g., wind speed, temperature, humidity), using the COARE algorithms developed through the TOGA-COARE project

OOI Profiler Nitrate Retriever

A command line interface to simplify the retrieval of high-quality in situ nitrate data from Ocean Observatories Initiative Endurance Array profiling moorings. A quality control procedure is applied to the data and the data is binned vertically and in time before being saved locally.

Scientific Data Analysis Template

This repository serves as a template for organizing and storing scientific analysis code in a structured and reproducible manner, with a particular focus on supporting Python notebook version control.