I'm Rowan.
Planetary Scientist,
Physicist,
Developer.
I've been busy.
Here's a few things I've been working on (and a figure from each):Symplectic Integrator in Python
A Symplectic Integrator which uses the Democratic Heliocentric coordinates to model planetary systems, based on the Wisdom-Holman integrator.
Made using python and numpy, as a project for my planetary dynamics class.
Simulating Europa's Stresses for cycloid formation
As a research project for my planetary surface processes class, I created simulations of Europa's daily tidal stresses.
These are based on the works of (Hoppa) and (Rhoden), and are made in python.
I wrote a report explaining my figures and the process of creating them, available on request.
Reflected-light spectroscopy w/ PICASO
This was done during my time at Purdue's Johnson Cloud Lab, with Colin Hamill. (See Hamill et al. below)
I used the python package PICASO to model the reflected-light phase curve of cloudy exoplanets, mainly GJ1214b and Kepler-7b.
I also contributed to the PICASO package on github, which was an amazing experience.
Mapping Europa's lineae with OpenCV
This was a short project I did for fun, in relation to NASA's Europa Clipper mission.
I used opencv to isolate and help identify lineae on Europa's surface.
The fact that lineae appears at many different scales, and the data we have is currently sparce, it was a fun challenge.
Currently, I'm working on a branch of the project using CNNs, and a branch using Linear Directional Means.
