Alex Kerney

Alex Kerney started at GMRI in August of 2018 as a Web Application Developer on the Ocean Data Products team. The primary focus of the team is to provide the tools and systems to share the research done in the lab and the field with the surrounding communities of the Gulf of Maine and beyond.

While at Colorado College Alex studied geomorphology and geophysics, or as he puts it "the study of things falling down and rocks that are too hidden to observe directly." Geomorphology fell in line with his many outdoor hobbies allowing him to combine an interest in skiing and paddling with geology where avalanches, landslides, and streamflow dynamics were the intersection of study and play. Similarly, geophysics was the natural combination of his interest in technology and that of geology. After college, he spent some time working on a research vessel in the Patagonian fjords where the focus was on tracking the volumetric change of marine glaciers.

Prior to GMRI, Alex was working in boarding schools doing both system administration and teaching programming and for even longer he's been leading wilderness trips for Chewonki and other organizations around Maine.