Walt McNab

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Computational environmental scientist

Education

I am a computational environmental scientist and hydrogeologist, with over 20 years of experience in research and consulting. I’m driven by a passion for quantitative analysis; I find patterns in data – and develop models to explain them – to help clients solve their problems. My work primarily entails flow, transport, and geochemical processes in groundwater and unsaturated soil environments, but I have also conducted studies in riparian sediment transport and atmospheric dispersion. The tools I rely upon include: (1) Python, Julia, and R for analyzing data sets and conducting specialized simulations. Porous media flow model examples that can be perused on my blog (https://numericalenv...