Philip Savoy

Physical Scientist

Led or contributed to 6 peer-reviewed publications by working with academic, state, and federal collaborators to develop new models of river and lake water quality.
Designed models to predict algal concentrations and harmful algal blooms (HABs) across 110 New York State lakes and examined effectiveness of NYSDEC water quality monitoring data for making accurate predictions. Identified a simple, low-cost measure that was as effective as costlier laboratory measures for predicting HABs.
Created public datasets with over 100,000 records with data on water quality, climate, and land use.

Example deliverables

Postdoctoral Associate

Published 3 first authored and 2 coauthored peer-reviewed publications related to stream ecosystem dynamics.
Identified turbidity and total nitrogen as important predictors of chlorophyll concentrations in rivers nationally by developing and testing a machine learning model across 82 U.S. rivers.
Developed a new model to predict light available to river primary producers and used this model to estimate that water column processes limit river productivity for 50% of the nation’s river length and 80% of its surface area.
Created 2 public datasets with over 80 million records and associated metadata to support open science.

Example deliverables

Postdoctoral Associate

Led or contributed to 3 peer-reviewed publications as part of a multidisciplinary team of academic and federal scientists.
Created the first clustering of common patterns of river autotrophy and linked the clusters to environmental drivers. The results provide context for drawing comparisons of observed patterns of primary productivity across many rivers.
Communicated research findings by presenting at working groups or professional conferences, and authoring 2 open source R software packages.

Example deliverables

Journal article R package

Research assistant

Improved the realism of an existing plant physiology model by including better representation of how meteorological variables influence plant development and published a peer-reviewed article.

Experience