Laura Carriere

NASA Center for Climate Simulation Lead

Laura Carriere is the lead of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, an organization that provides high performance computing, storage, networking, and data systems designed to meet the specialized needs of the Earth science modeling communities. Prior to leading the NCCS, Laura worked on a number of projects within the NCCS including implementing centralized storage (CSS) to provide access to curated NASA data products to all NCCS environments, guiding the Earth Data Analytics Service (EDAS), a server side analytics tool, into production, and the Collaborative REAnalysis Technical Environment (CREATE), a project to process reanalysis data from the major global centers into Analysis Ready Datasets (ARD) to facilitate reanalysis intercomparison.

Previously, Laura served as a System Engineer at the NCCS, managing Data Services, Data Analytics, Centralized Storage, and User Services. Before joining the NCCS in 2010, she worked as the Lead System Administrator at the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, one of the major customers in the NCCS user community.

Education

B.S., Astronomy and Astrophysics, Minor in Computer Science, University of Toronto

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