Robert Dudley Currier
Title: Senior Data Engineer/Bioinformatician Phone: (941) 302-3163 Email: Bob joined Mote in August 2005 after completing a 20-year career at Duke University, where he was the director of Data and Telecommunications and senior technical staff member of the North Carolina Networking Initiative. Bob currently wears many hats for the Phytoplankton Ecology Program: Linux systems administrator, web designer and application developer, embedded software developer, AUV software developer and bioinformatician. Bob designed, developed, installed and supports the information technology behind the SO COOL systems, Mote's Beach Conditions Report™ and Mote's AUV tracking and control software. Bob is also the coPI on the GCOOS Data Nodes grant. Bob's current research focuses on optimizing algorithms for highspeed search, classification and visualization of massive scientific datasets using functional languages including Lisp, Clojure, F# and Scheme. He is also engaged in the design of SO COOL's latest data collection engine, the Coastal Oceans Virtual Observatory Listener.
Education Partial B.S., Math/Physics North Carolina Central University AAS, Electronics Technology, US Navy Technical Training Center
Professional Societies Senior Technical Representative, Internet2 Consortium. 1998-2005. North Carolina Networking Initiative Senior Technical Staff Member, 2000-2005 Network World Global Test Alliance, 1999-2004 Awards
- EDUCAUSE 1998 Excellence in Networking National Winner
- EDUCAUSE 1997 Excellence in Networking Honorable Mention
Publications Currier RD. 2010. Writing custom Nagios plugins with Python. 2010 February. Linux Magazine.
Kirkpatrick G, Hails, A, Currier RD, Boyes C. The Optical Phytoplankton Discriminator. Coastal Oceans 2009 Conference, Biloxi, MS.
Kirkpatrick G, Currier RD, Hails, A, Boyes C. An Ocean Observing System for Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Tracking. Coastal Oceans 2009 Conference, Biloxi, MS.
Currier RD. 2009. Constructing a collaborative tool for the dissemination of realtime environmental conditions using opensource software. Coastal GeoTools 2009 Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC.
Currier RD. 2009. Constructing adaptive mission planning and realtime control systems for autonomous underwater vehicles with opensource software. Coastal GeoTools 2009 Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC.
Currier RD. 2008. An introduction to CGI scripting with Python. Linux.com.
Currier RD. 2008. Fwknop and single packet authorization. Linux.com
Currier RD. 2008. Fusion Charts Free: Crossplatform charts that rock. Linux.com Currier RD. 2008. Bacula: backups that don't suck. Linux.com
Barbara Kirkpatrick, Currier RD, Kate Nierenberg, Andrew Reich, Lorraine C. Backer, Richard Stumpf, Lora Fleming, Gary Kirkpatrick. Florida red tide and human health: A pilot beach conditions reporting system to minimize human exposure. Science of the Total Environment. 2008.
Currier RD. 2007. OSS helps give voice to beach condition reporting system. Linux.com
Currier RD. 2007. OSS hits the beach in Florida. Linux.com
Barbara Kirkpatrick, Currier RD, Kate Nierenberg, Andy Reich, Lor raine C. Backer, Lora E. Fleming, Richard Stumpf, Gary Kirkpatrick. 2007. Ocean Observing Systems and Public Health: The Florida Beach Conditions Reporting System to Minimize Exposure to Karenia brevis Aerosols. Four th Annual HAB Symposium, 2007.
Love, R., M. Culver, G. Kirkpatrick, Currier RD, J. Hillier, R.P. Stumpf, M. Tomlinson. 2007. Improving the harmful algal bloom forecast system with optical data from autonomous underwater vehicles. Abstract: Coastal GeoTools 2007 Conference, March 48, 2007, Myrtle Beach, SC.
Currier RD. January 2001. Network traffic analysis almost for free. ZDNet.com.
Currier RD. March 2000. Building a budgetfriendly intrusion detection system. Itworld.com.
Currier RD. July 2000. Ipv6 header fields - simply elegant. Itworld.com.
Currier RD. May 1999. Test drive your network designs. NetworkWorld.com. Department: Directorate of Environmental Health & Ocean Technology
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