HPC Perspectives: Episode 7
High-resolution climate models: Addressing commercial needs with HPC
Discover how HPC and AI are revolutionizing climate risk analysis. Learn about the latest advances in climate modeling and their applications in environmental services, IT, insurance and more. Watch the full recording on-demand now.
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Nicholas Heavens
Innovation Project Manager, Climate Modeling
Nicholas holds a BSc in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago (2005) and an MSc and PhD from Caltech (2007, 2010). After a postdoc at Cornell, he was Research Assistant Professor of Planetary Science at Hampton University in Virginia and then a Research Scientist at the Space Science Institute in Colorado, funded by NASA and NSF. He has been an affiliate of Imperial College, London, the University of Oklahoma, and NASA JPL. He has authored 65 peer-reviewed publications about the weather and climate of Mars and the Earth, including 25 as first author.
Sharon Howe
VP Business Support, HPC & Cloud Solutions
Sharon has 25 years of experience in the Energy industry. She started her career as a geophysicist and subsequently taken on various technical and business leadership roles within subsurface imaging and then in integrated geoscience.
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