Declan Valters

Dr Declan Valters

Geomagnetism IT specialist
BGS Edinburgh
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I am a software engineer specialising in the development of software for geoscientific applications. At the BGS I develop software and IT systems to support the monitoring and modelling of the Earth’s magnetic field. My software development career has spanned a range of geoscience, including operational weather forecasting systems, flood modelling on high-performance computers, and data processing systems for magnetic observatories. At BGS I have also taught and designed programming courses for staff including Python and software version control.

Declan Valters’s biography

  • 2025 to present: Geomagnetism IT specialist, British Geological Survey
  • 2024: Applications Consultant, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
  • 2019 to 2024: Geoscience Software Developer, Informatics, British Geological Survey
  • 2017: Scientific Software Engineer, Met Office
  • 2017 to 2019: Research Software Engineer, Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
  • 2013 to 2017: PhD Parallelisation of a numerical model for simulations of flash flooding, University of Manchester
  • 2009 to 2013: MEarthSci Geology, University of Edinburgh

Research interest

ORCID: 0000-0002-4562-3944

 

Chapters

  • Valters, D A. 2016. Modelling Geomorphic Systems: Landscape Evolution. In: Cook, S J, Clarke, L E, and Nield, J M. (Eds.) Geomorphological Techniques (Online Edition). British Society for Geomorphology; London, UK. ISSN: 2047–0371.
  • Python
  • Fortran
  • C++
  • C programming language
  • HPC (High-performance computing) and Parallelisation
  • Certified Software Carpentries Instructor
  • Unix systems
  • Software Containerisation
  • Member of the British Computing Society
  • Member of the Society of Research Software Engineering

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