Zhihao LIU
Climate & Energy Data Scientist
Offshore Bergen · Aug 2020
Climate & Energy Data Scientist · Caixin ESG30 Young Scholar
Turning climate and energy data into decision tools.
I build evidence-driven data systems for climate, energy, and geoscience—from field observations and reproducible research to public tools that support analysis and decisions.
Current work
Research records, shipped tools, and agentic AI systems.
Independent products and research records spanning climate intelligence, local-first software, agentic AI systems, and renewable energy modeling.
CCUS Policy Hub
Open-source CCUS intelligence platform connecting policy, regulation, project deployment, capacity, and governance evidence across regions.
Ductor — AI Agentic Harness
Upstream contributions covering Windows and Docker compatibility, Telegram streaming, provider and model discovery, and Antigravity runtime support for an AI agentic harness.
Climate-to-energy downscaling
Quantile-based bias adjustment and downscaling of CMIP6 wind-speed projections against ERA5, testing when corrected climate data becomes useful for energy-system modeling.
Ownly
A local-first ownership memory and decision ledger for tracking what you own, what it costs, how you use it, and what you learn.
Projects & code
Selected work beyond the active product list.
A non-repeating selection drawn from the project and repository archives: research programmes, offshore field work, open-source tools, and teaching artifacts.
PROJECT ARCHIVE
Research and field projects
Selected project records that are distinct from the products listed under Current work.
dMRV is the key
CCUS clusters / digital MRV
Digital monitoring, reporting, verification, and disclosure framework design for shared CCUS infrastructure and multi-party operations.
OceanHub
Offshore energy / marine intelligence
A partner-facing offshore energy and marine intelligence portal supported by a reproducible content and presentation pipeline.
4D Seismic Hub
Time-lapse seismic / monitoring
A curated knowledge hub that organizes 4D seismic best practices and case studies for early-stage technical screening.
Quad 35 hybrid seismic acquisition
Streamer + OBN / offshore Bergen
Technical review, onboard acquisition, data QC, reprocessing, and operational modeling for the first commercial hybrid streamer-and-node survey.
OffshoreOrient Studio
Offshore seismic QC / navigation + source
An internal Python toolbox for shot-by-shot acquisition QC, RMS and noise analysis, trace editing, and real-time gun-source alarms, used by survey colleagues and registered as software copyright.
REPOSITORY ARCHIVE
Open-source tools and methods
Smaller codebases, reusable artifacts, and upstream contributions that show the technical work behind the larger systems.
iCal Pro for Obsidian
Markdown tasks / iCalendar
An Obsidian plugin that converts Markdown tasks into standards-compliant feeds for Google, Apple, Outlook, and other calendar clients.
RhythmCoach
Speech rehearsal / prosody feedback
A rehearsal tool for speakers and podcasters, combining scripts, recording, timing, and interpretable rhythm feedback.
HTTP to Obsidian CLI Gateway
Agent-to-vault bridge
A small HTTP proxy that lets sandboxed AI agents reach a host-side Obsidian CLI without exposing the whole machine.
Open Phrasebank
Academic writing / corpus analysis
A customizable phrasebank workflow built from scientific corpora, with examples comparing climate-change language across disciplines.
Notes & publications
Formal outputs and selected working notes.
Formal research outputs are kept distinct from projects; the notes selection points to actual writing from the blog rather than repeating product descriptions.
Research outputs
Peer-reviewed research, open data, and patent record.
Retrieving snow depth distribution by downscaling ERA5 Reanalysis with ICESat-2 laser altimetry
Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2025
Geospatial modeling that combines ICESat-2, ERA5-Land, calibration, and XGBoost to map snow-depth variability at finer spatial scales.
Snow-depth / ICESat-2 Zenodo dataset
Zenodo research dataset · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10048875
A tabular research dataset connecting ICESat-2 snow-on and snow-free measurements with DTM1, DTM10, Copernicus GLO-30, and FABDEM for reproducible DEM evaluation and snow-depth modeling.
Underwater seismic device identification system
PRC patent record, 2022
An identification system developed around underwater seismic devices and offshore operational workflows.
Selected notes
Writing across geospatial methods, field science, and personal AI systems.
NuthKaab Coreg vs Gradient Descent Coreg
A detailed comparison of DEM co-registration approaches and the design of a gradient-descent coregistration tool.
Read note →Field Trip to Ice Age Museum
A long-form field note on Quaternary geomorphology and the glacial history visible in the Norwegian landscape.
Read note →The Agentic Brain: A Blueprint for Personal AI OS with LifeOS 5.0
A systems note on moving from passive digital storage to an active, agent-readable personal knowledge environment.
Read note →ICESat-2 vs DTM1, DTM10, Copernicus30, FABDEM
A practical comparison of four elevation products against ICESat-2, covering co-registration, residual terrain bias, uncertainty, and bias-correction limits.
Read note →Contact