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I’m Judy Hertz and riotsystems is the consultancy I founded in 1996. I’m semi-retired as of July 2020.

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My most recent contract was working as the Climate Data [Re]Analyst for the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Collaborative REAnalysis Technical Environment (CREATE) team.

Cool maps from my reanalysis work

 These are maps from an eight-member ocean reanalysis (synthesis) ensemble, a collaboration of the NASA CREATE team and World Meteorological Organization World Climate Research Programme Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR).

January 1998 (left) Warmer Eastern Equatorial Pacific than January 1999 (right)

This project developed ensemble average and standard deviation for potential temperature, salinity, and zonal and meridional velocities from eight ocean reanalyses, 1980-2010.

In the maps, note the differences in potential temperature (theato), with the January 1998 ensemble average at 112.5 meter depth °C (left) showing a significantly warmer eastern equatorial Pacific during the peak of the warming associated with the 1997-98 El Niño than the January 1999 ensemble average at 112.5 meter depth °C (right) during the subsequent La Niña cold event.

Currently obsessed with...
Donating to the Capital Area Food Bank, Alice’s Kids, Feeding America and to the Marine Mammal Center.
Music from Terence Blanchard, Shakey Graves, Fat Freddys Drop and The Dead South.

And now this: my favorite python xkcd

Credit: xkcd

Previous Clients

Information Technology Coalition Inc
Alexandria, VA, under contract to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

AARP
Washington, D.C.

Computer Sciences Corp
El Segundo, CA, under contract to NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC), Hampton, VA.

Science Applications International Corp
San Diego, CA, under contract to NASA LaRC, Hampton, VA.

Science Systems and Applications Inc
Lanham, MD, under contract to NASA LaRC, Hampton, VA.

Kelly, Anderson & Associates
Alexandria, VA under contract to NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Kabira Technologies, Inc (now TIBCO)
Palo Alto, CA.