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Ana Privette
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Founder & Principal at Climate Data Solutions, LLC; Chief Data Scientist for President's Climate Data Intiative
, Climate Data Solutions, LLC
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Asheville,
United States
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Ana is a scientist and engineer by training, and is interested in projects that make us of science data to support decision making, specifically in the areas of assessing climate vulnerability and risk. She has 20 years of professional experience in data collection and analysis, as well as project management. She spent most of her career at NASA and NOAA. |
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Area of Expertise: |
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Disaster, Aid, Emergencies, Relief
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Environment, Climate, Energy, Water, Sanitation
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Infrastructure, Technology, Engineering, Science
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
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Trained as an engineer and scientist, Ana spent most of her career working as a researcher at NASA and NOAA. She developed algorithms to improve the retrieval of Land Surface Temperature from satellites and use those measurements to enhance decision making. To validate her work, she conducted extensive fields work in Southern Africa (Zambia and South Africa), and in New Mexico. Ana worked closely with communities aiming to use science data to improve their decision making, specifically around irrigation scheduling and building resilience to climate change. She was the data manager for the National Climate Assessment for 1.5 years and helped design and implement the data management strategy for that program. Since 2014, Ana has been a Principal with Climate Data Solutions, LLC (that she founded). In that capacity, she focus on helping the federal government design and implement optimal ways to make their climate-relevant data more discoverable, accessible and usable by communities, and helps businesses and communities identify data and tools relevant to support their decision making in the climate space. Ana was the project manager, and currently the Chief Data Scientist, for the White House Climate Data Initiative, and works closely both with private and public sectors.
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Education: |
B.Sc. Environmental Engineering (specialty: Environmental Impact Studies) -New University of Lisbon, Portugal
M.Eng. Civil Environmental Engineering (Specialty: Water Quality and remote sensing) - MIT, USA
PhD Environmental Engineering (specialty: remote sensing of land surface temperature), New University of Lisbon, Portugal -- conducted word at NASA GSFC and field work in South Africa and Zambia.
Post-doctoral Fellow (focus: assimilation of satellite derived temperature measurements into land surface models to improve irrigation scheduling in New Mexico), NASA GSFC Hydrological Sciences.
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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