Computer Science graduate (University of Washington Tacoma) working on ocean and environmental data: CTD profiles, satellite imagery, and computer vision for biodiversity monitoring. US Army veteran. Looking for entry-level data science or research software roles in ocean and environmental science.
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| CTD_Grapher_Web | React / TypeScript / Plotly.js app that draws multi-station depth profiles and transect sections from Sea-Bird .cnv CTD casts, entirely in the browser: nothing to install, files never leave your computer. Use it. |
| CTD_Grapher_v2 | Colab notebook that parses any Sea-Bird .cnv cast from its own header and draws interactive multi-station depth profiles (Plotly HTML + PNG). Live example. |
| drone-intertidal-species-id | SAM 3 + BioCLIP 2 pipeline that finds and identifies intertidal organisms in consumer-drone photos, with geometry / confidence / agreement gates. Built at OceanHackWeek 2026, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. |
| HerringIdentificationProject | Herring Spawn Labeler: FastAPI web app that pulls Sentinel-2 and Landsat scenes from Google Earth Engine around DFO spawn records, labels them, exports GeoTIFF training chips, and adds SAM 3 point-prompt segmentation with a spectral spawn score. Started at OceanHackWeek 2026. |
| centennial-park-point-cloud | Three.js viewer for a georeferenced textured mesh of a boat launch and moorage from a DJI Mini SE survey, compressed 102 MB to 11 MB for the web. View. |
| BioinformaticsStudy | R / DESeq2 analysis of MorPhiC RNA-seq (GEO GSE288289) testing whether knockout method changes the differentially expressed genes for four transcription factors; volcano and UpSet plots. |
| CTD_Grapher | First version of the CTD grapher (Excel + Google Drive workflow) written for a UW Tacoma estuarine field course. Superseded by v2. |
Languages — Python, R, Java, SQL, JavaScript
ML & CV — PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, Segment Anything (SAM 3 / SAM 2.1), BioCLIP / CLIP-style zero-shot classification, DESeq2 and Bioconductor, NumPy, pandas, SciPy
Ocean data — Sea-Bird CTD .cnv processing, photogrammetry
Tools — Git and GitHub (Pages, CLI), Google Colab, Jupyter and JupyterHub, FastAPI, Plotly, Matplotlib, ggplot2, Linux and Windows
- Email: james.simpson012@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/jimothy-dev