{"id":4038,"date":"2016-09-01T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T15:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2016-09-06T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T20:41:25","slug":"15-questions-chad-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2016\/09\/01\/15-questions-chad-greene\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Questions: Chad Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am John Kelly, the Administrator of MATLAB Central.\u00a0 As part of the MATLAB Central 15th<\/sup> Anniversary Celebration<\/a> we thought it would be interesting to have a series of interviews with key contributors to MATLAB Central.\u00a0 Naturally we thought 15 questions seemed appropriate.<\/p>\n

Our first interview is with Chad Greene<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Chad_Greene\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Chad has been a top contributor on MATLAB Central since 2012 with his main participation in File Exchange and MATLAB Answers.\u00a0 He is the author of 147 Files on File Exchange, which is a lot.\u00a0 One submission Chad would like you to check out is\u00a0cmocean perceptually-uniform colormaps<\/a><\/p>\n

\"cmocean<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s simple, easy to use, and meets a need. \u00a0 The function is aimed at communicating data more effectively, and its implementation is easy to learn and straightforward.<\/p>\n

Chad is currently pursuing his Ph.D in Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. \u00a0His main focus is in observations of Antarctic ice shelf response to oceanic and subglacial forcing.\u00a0 Basically this means he spends a lot of time researching Antarctica.<\/p>\n

Chad was kind enough to let us do a virtual interview.<\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0 <\/strong>John Kelly: When did you first get exposed to MATLAB?<\/strong><\/div>\n

Chad Greene: \u00a0When I entered grad school everyone around me seemed to be using MATLAB in their research, and I naturally followed suit.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 J<\/strong>K: Did you start using it right away, or did it take a while to grow on you?<\/strong><\/div>\n

CG: \u00a0Both. \u00a0I was given a project my master\u2019s advisor suggested I do in MATLAB, and that was my first exposure to programming.\u00a0 I found that the more I thought about problems in terms of how I might code them in MATLAB, the better I became as a scientist. \u00a0Straightforward, repeatable code tends to breed straightforward, repeatable science.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 <\/strong>JK: Have you gotten a reputation as a \u201cMATLAB Fixer\u201d? Was that ever a burden? <\/strong><\/div>\n

CG: \u00a0I do receive a fair number of unsolicited emails asking for help. \u00a0Sometimes folks are thoughtful, personable, and ask interesting questions that challenge my way of thinking–I like that.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 <\/strong>JK: On your personal website,<\/strong> chadagreene.com<\/strong><\/a>, there is this great picture on your home page.\u00a0 \"_DSC0468clp9\"<\/a> Can you tell me about it?
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CG: \u00a0I took that at around local midnight at a field site in the middle of West Antarctica. \u00a0By morning it looked like this<\/p>\n