Brooks Groves

FORTRAN, Snowpack, and the Language the Atmosphere Speaks

NWS runs FORTRAN. NCAR runs FORTRAN. ECMWF runs FORTRAN. So does a developer in Lakewood, WA — analyzing Cascade snowpack at 15% of normal, every morning, over coffee.

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COBOL, Streamflow, and Artemis II

A 1959 language fetching live government telemetry, running in a cloud CI/CD pipeline, on the day four humans left Earth's orbit for the first time since 1972.

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Exploring forge3d With Washington LiDAR

A new GPU-accelerated terrain renderer built in Rust, shipped as Python wheels. Mount St. Helens, Crater Lake, and what 1-meter LiDAR does to a summit render.

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Why I Switched to pixi for Managing Python and R Environments

After years of conda headaches, a faster and cleaner path to reproducible geospatial work on Windows.

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Building a Live Streamflow Dashboard on a $0 Budget

How I built a live Sierra Nevada streamflow monitor using the USGS public API, GitHub Actions for automation, and Leaflet for mapping — with zero infrastructure cost.

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