Forrest M. Hoffman

Education

University of California, Irvine, California 92697: Ph.D. in Earth System Science (06/2015).

University of California, Irvine, California 92697: Master's of Science in Earth System Science (12/2012).

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996: Master's of Science in Physics (12/2004).

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996: Bachelor of Science in Physics (8/1991). Undergraduate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy (1989–1991). Performed astronomical photometry research and developed computer software for data reduction and analysis.

Professional Experience

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), [Managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by Martin Marietta Energy Systems (through 1995), Lockheed Martin Energy Research (LMER) Corp. (1996–3/2000) and UT-Battelle, LLC (4/2000-present)] MS 6301, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6301: Laboratory Research Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-funded Biogeochemistry–Climate Feedbacks Scientific Focus Area (SFA) project; contributor to the DOE-funded Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME), Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) – Arctic, and Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) – Tropics projects; Principal Investigator for the USDA Forest Service-funded ForWarn project at ORNL; Earth System Modeling (ESM) Theme leader for the Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) at ORNL; and contributor to the Community Earth System Model (CESM) and International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) community research activities. Directs and conducts climate change research focused on global biogeochemistry, terrestrial ecosystem science, and hydrological research, employing advanced computational methods and high performance computing resources. Develops and implements metrics for model evaluation, performs software engineering for the CESM and ACME models, and develops and applies methods for large scale data analytics. Previously led the Computer Science & Mathematics Division (CSMD) Awards Committee and formerly served on the ORNL Secure On-Line Facilities Development Group, the Environmental Sciences Division (ESD) Electronic Communications Committee, the ORNL Scientific Computing User Advisory Committee, the ORNL IBM SP2 Access Committee, and the ORNL Internet Technologies Working Group (ITWG) (11/1993-present).

Linux Magazine: Contributing Editor and Columnist for “Extreme Linux” (1/2002–10/2006).

University of Tennessee, Department of Geological Sciences, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996: Performed system administration, systems programming, and management of several Unix-based workstations and minisupercomputers in the Earth Sciences Modeling Center of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Environmental Sciences Division. Developed and modified scientific models and tools used in environmental analyses, including numerical models and visualization systems used to model and analyze environmental data (7/1992–11/1993).

Automated Sciences Group, Inc., 800 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830: Knowledge Engineer for Hydrogeochemical Expert System Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Responsible for software design and development for contaminant transport modeling and Unix system administration and programming. Proficiency in knowledge engineering, knowledge representation, programming languages, and scientific modeling techniques required (5/1989–6/1992).

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830: Science and Engineering Research and Professional Intern for Hydrogeochemical Expert System Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (9/1988–5/1989).

Hawai'i Data, Hilo, Hawai'i 96721-5059: Owner of company specializing in computer systems for plant and office automation, accounting, database design, telecommunications, and expert systems development. Managed HP3000 minicomputer (1.5 years) and networked and stand-alone PC's (4 years) at customer sites (1984–9/1990).

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, Hilo, Hawai'i 96721-0425: Operator of K-Coronameter, Prominence Monitor, and Calcium Variability Monitor. Performed scientific data collection and management, operated multiple computer systems and telescope control systems at high altitude observatory (1987–9/1988).

University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawai'i 96720-4091: Physics and Astronomy Department Laboratory Manager (9/1987–5/1988).

University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawai'i 96720-4091: Business/Economics Department Computer Laboratory Manager. Managed network of 10 PC's and assisted professors and students in the use of hardware and software (1/1987–5/1987).

Radio Shack and Radio Shack Computer Center, Hilo, Hawai'i 96720: Computer hardware and software sales, installation, and customer support (1985–1986).

University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Center for Continuing Education and Community Service, Hilo, Hawai'i 96720-4091: instructor of computer classes for children, adults, teachers and senior citizens (1984–1985).

Mississippi Academic and Marine Adventures Inc., Biloxi MS 39530: Member, Board of Directors; instructor of BASIC classes (1984).

The Hancock Bank, Gulfport MS 39501: IBM 1419 Computer operator, data entry and shipping clerk (1983–1984).

Professional Organizations

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2007–present).

• American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1996–present).

• American Meteorological Society (2011–present).
  • Smoky Mountain Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) (1998–present). Invited speaker on September 18, 2000. Chapter President (2005).

• Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) (2015–present).

• Ecological Society of America (ESA) (2015–present).

• International Association for Landscape Ecology, U.S. Regional Association (US-IALE), (2014–present).

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – Computer Society (1998–present).

• National Speleological Society (NSS) (2013–present).

• Sigma Pi Sigma (SPS) (physics honor society) (1995–present).

Civic Organizations

• Judge for U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Education Adventures in Supercomputing program regional competition in Nashville, Tennessee (1995, 1997, 1998, and 2000).

• Atomic City Aquatic Club (ACAC), Oak Ridge, Tennessee: President (1995–1996) and First Vice President (1993–1995) of the Board of Directors for swim team of 100+ young athletes.

• Physics facilitator for regional Science Olympiad competition (1992–1995).

• Simple Machines facilitator for Tennessee State Science Olympiad competition (1994–1997).

• Science/Physics reader for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (1989–1990).

Software Development

Designed, developed, and implemented the following systems:

• pzs, a web-based interface for panning, zooming, scrolling, and viewing maps.

• The Stone SouperComputer, the first Beowulf-style parallel computer at ORNL.

• An on-line database for the U.S. Global Change Data and Information System's (GCDIS) globalchange.gov website which can be maintained remotely via the World Wide Web (WWW).

• The Virtual Field Site, a small field prototype system for collection and distribution of remote sensing data, including imagery, used for field site monitoring and event detection. Data and images are made available via the World Wide Web (WWW) in near real-time.

• The Climate Library, an interpolation module for use in global change models which automatically uses temperature and precipitation data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) to provide a model with interpolated global maps for any desired year.

• moviemap, a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) package for dynamic generation of movie/animation sequences on the World Wide Web (WWW). Movies are created based on multiple image point selections made by the user.

• A World Wide Web (WWW) Information System, the first such server at ORNL, for public relations, internal administrative information dissemination, and global scientific and technical information distribution.

• A Gopher Information System for the ORNL Environmental Sciences Division.

• sphere, a package for interpolating global climate data using Robert Renka's tsphpak and sphtrpak routines.

• The Geochemical Expert System for describing complexation and precipitation in complex geochemical compositions. Designed and implemented the knowledge base, geochemical model interface, and graphics displays.

• The Plant Management System, an intelligent system for fish plant management which tracks perishable product inventory.

• The Remote Sales System, a communication package with distributed processing for multisite organizations.

• The Freight Management System, which tracks customer shipments, provides customer billing and packing records, and reconciles freight charges.

• A prototype for institutional inmate control including inventory tracking and individual management.

• A government-related contract processing and accounts management system with a custom-designed, integrated accounting package.

• A commercial, menu-driven accounting and inventory system for retail and wholesale sales with accounts receivable and payable, inventory tracking, and general ledger capabilities.

• Nate's Learning Machine, an educational package for the handicapped that includes hand-eye coordination and fine motor control.

Computer Environments

Parallel Systems Cray XT5 (>150,000 cores), XT4 (>30,000 cores), XT3 (>5,000 cores); Cray X1E (1,024 processors); SGI Altix (256 cores); IBM BlueGene/P (8192 cores), BlueGene/L; IBM Power6, Power5, Power4 (24 nodes/768 processors); IBM SP WinterHawk I/II (184 nodes/720 processors); Compaq AlphaServer SC Series Supercomputer (64 nodes/256 processors, 16 nodes/64 processors); Beowulf-style Linux clusters (2–10,000 cores); Sun UltraSparc clusters; Silicon Graphics Origin 2000 (32 processors); IBM SP2 (16 processors); Intel Paragon (2048 processors); Intel iPSC/860 (128 processors); Intel iPSC/2; Maspar MP-2; Cray X-MP; and Cray Y-MP. Serial Systems Apollo DN10000, AT&T 3B2, DEC 3000 and 7000 AXP (all models), DECsystem and DECstation 5000 and 3100 (all models), DEC VAX and MicroVAX and VAXstation (all models), DEC 20 (all models), HP 9000 (all models), HP 3000 (all models), IBM RS/6000 (all models), IBM 3090, IBM 360, NCR 8200, Silicon Graphics IRIX Workstations (all models) , Stardent/Kubota Titan, Sun SPARCstation, SPARCserver, and UltraSPARC (all models). Micro Systems Apple II (all models), Macintosh and Power Macintosh (all models), Atari 800/XL/XE, Commodore 64, HP 110 and 150, IBM PC/XT/AT and PS/2, Intel-based PC's (many models and manufacturers), NCR DecisionMate, Radio Shack Models I/III/IV, and Tandy 1000/2000/3000.

Languages, Development Environments, and Application Programming Interfaces C, C++, FORTRAN 90, FORTRAN 77, dbx, GNU Software (gcc, g++, g77, gdb, gdbm, etc.), Concurrent Versioning System (CVS), Revision Control System (RCS), netCDF, Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Personal Home Page (PHP), Common Gateway Interface (CGI) protocol, JavaScript, Make, Perl, DBM, PostgreSQL, Sybase SQL, Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), Message Passing Interface (MPI), Postscript, BASIC, LOGO. Scientific Models Community Climate System Model (CCSM4, CCSM3, and CCSM2), Community Land Model (CLM4, CLM3, and CLM2), Community Atmospherre Model (CAM3 and CAM2), and Fifth-Generation NCAR/Penn State Mesoscale Model (MM5).

Operating Systems Unix and Unix-like BSD 4.3 and 4.4, OSF/1, Digital Unix, Compaq Tru64, Domain OS, HP-UX, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, RedHat Linux, Slackware and other implementations of Linux, SunOS and Solaris, Ultrix, Unicos, System V. Others CP/M; IMOS; Apple MacOS; HP MPE V; DEC TOPS 20 and VMS.

Applications/Software Systems IDL, NCL, NCO, PV-Wave, Application Visualization System (AVS), Matlab, Vis5D, Cave5D, GRASS, xv, xpaint, The Gimp, gPhoto, the X Window System and XFree86, Gnu Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) and K Desktop Environment (KDE), Digital DECwindows, Sun OpenWindows, OSF Motif, TGV Multinet, Network File System (NFS), Berkley lpd, vi, Pine, Pico, awk, sed, tar, gzip, Zip, Network Time Protocol (NTP), Secure Shell (SSH), Samba, TeX, LaTeX, troff/eqn/tbl, MBONE (sd, sdr, vic, vat, nv, wb), MPEG, Gopher Server and Client, Mosaic, Netscape, Mozilla, Microsoft Internet Explorer, NCSA HTTP Server, Apache httpd, WAIS and Isite, qi and ph, Post Office Protocol (POP) Server, Domain Name Server (DNS), Laser Knowledge Representation (KR) and Rule Production System (RPS), Rulemaster, KES Expert System shell, Mineql, Image/Query/Vplus, BPI Accounting Systems, dBase II/III/III+, Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony, Open Office, ApplixWare Office, Star Office, WordStar, PC Calc/File/Write/Talk, Mac Draw/Write/Paint, Cricket Graph, Usenet News, PC Gopher III, Eudora, POPmail, NCSA Telnet, PC-TCP/On-Net, ProComm, Crosstalk, and Kermit.

Honors and Awards

Significant Event Award for contributions to development of the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Tropics Project. Oak Ridge National Laboratory/UT-Battelle LLC, April 2015. Significant Event Award for contributions to development of the Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME) Scientific Focus Area (SFA). Oak Ridge National Laboratory/UT-Battelle LLC, October 2014. Employee of the Quarter in the Computer Science & Mathematics Division. Oak Ridge National Laboratory/UT-Battelle LLC, July–September 2014. Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology for “Representativeness-based sampling network design for the State of Alaska” awarded by the U.S. Regional Association of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), May 2014. Significant Event Award for contributions to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change & National Climate Assessment Work. Oak Ridge National Laboratory/UT-Battelle LLC, May 2014. Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Transfer 2013 Interagency Partnership Award. Co-recipient for ORNL contribution to the ForWARN Forest Disturbance Monitoring Project with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, NASA Stennis Space Center, and the U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center, April 2013. Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Transfer, Southeastern Region 2012 Partnership Award. Co-recipient for ORNL contribution to the ForWARN Forest Disturbance Monitoring Project with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, NASA Stennis Space Center, and the U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center, March 2013. ORNL Computer Science & Mathematics Division Most Distinguished Scientific or Technical Contribution Award for the ORNL contribution to the ForWARN Forest Disturbance Monitoring Project, December 2012. U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service 2012 Southern Research Station Director's Science Delivery Award. Co-recipient for ORNL contribution to the ForWARN Forest Disturbance Monitoring Project with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, NASA Stennis Space Center, and the U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center, October 2012. ORNL Computing and Computational Science Directorate's Distinguished Employee Award. May 2012. 1st Place, People's Choice Poster Award for A Cluster Analysis Approach to Comparing Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data with Global Climate Model (GCM) Results, by Forrest M. Hoffman, Salil Mahajan, William W. Hargrove, Richard T. Mills, and Anthony Del Genio. The U.S. Department of Energy, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program, at the 18th Annual ARM Science Team Meeting in Norfolk, Virginia, March 10–14, 2008. ORNL Outstanding Mentor Award. The U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, February 2008. Significant Event Award for contribution to NSF's National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Design Committee. Oak Ridge National Laboratory/UT-Battelle LLC, March 2006. Outstanding Paper in the Discipline of Landscape Ecology. W. W. Hargrove, F. M. Hoffman and P. M. Schwartz, "A fractal landscape realizer for generating synthetic maps," Conservation Ecology 6(1):2 (2002). Awarded by the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE), U. S. Regional Chapter, April 2004. World-Class Teamwork Award for building and using the Stone SouperComputer, the first Beowulf-style supercomputer at ORNL. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Values Committee, October 19, 1999. President's Award for Continuous Improvement. Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corp., November 1997. ORNL Technical Achievement Award. Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corp., 1996. Distinguished Achievement Award for Operational Support. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, August 1995. Significant Event Award. Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Martin Marietta Energy Systems, June 1995.

References

• William E. Blass, University of Tennessee, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996.

• Sigurd W. Christensen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831.

• Richard A. Crowe, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hilo, Hawai'i 96720-4091.

• John B. Drake, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831.

• William W. Hargrove, Eastern Forest Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 200 WT Weaver Boulevard, Asheville, North Carolina 28804-3454.

• William D. Heacox, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hilo, Hawai'i 96720-4091.

• G. Paul Lewis, University of Tennessee, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996.

• Raymond A. McCord, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831.

• James T. Randerson, University of California - Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, California 92697.