Carlo Broderick

I'm an environmental data scientist at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). I work on the Wildfire Resilience Index, building the geospatial pipelines and interactive maps that show where communities are exposed to wildfire and how well they can respond.

In 2025–26 I was a Fulbright Scholar in Asunción, Paraguay, and I still work with partners there on fire simulation. Before that I was an Ocean Health Index fellow, and I spent several years in supply-chain sustainability, starting as an early employee at SupplyShift.

Selected work

Wildfire, ocean health and open tools for data science.

NCEAS · 2023–present

Wildfire Resilience Index

An index of how well communities in the western U.S. can resist, recover from and adapt to wildfire. I process and analyse the data behind its indicators, from road networks to burn hazard.

wildfireindex.org →

Interactive map · 2026

Wildfire evacuation risk across U.S. communities

How many roads lead out of 30,728 small U.S. communities, set against how likely the land around them is to burn. Built from OpenStreetMap road networks and national burn-probability data.

Open the map →

Interactive map · 2026

Wildfire risk to U.S. cultural resources

Burn hazard for 56,106 places on the National Register of Historic Places. Companion map to Farnisa, Halpern & Fong, Scientific Reports (2026).

Open the map → Read the paper →

Paraguay · 2025–present

Parafire

A fire-risk, simulation and rapid-response platform for INFONA, Paraguay's national forestry institute, with Forest4Life Paraguay. It includes a review of the country's weather-station data and a fire-spread simulator tested against historical fires.

Published pages (Spanish/English) →

NCEAS-AI · open source

Coding-agent toolkits for data science

Ready-made skills and a personalised ruleset that steer AI coding agents toward reproducible, analysis-first environmental data science in R and Python, including house-style interactive maps and chart pages.

Skills → Rules →

NCEAS · 2023

Ocean Health Index

As an OHI fellow I helped run the annual global assessment: preparing ecological datasets, calculating scores, and communicating the methods and results through web content, reports and visualisations.

oceanhealthindex.org →

Experience

The scenic route: supply chains, sustainability programs, then data science.

2023 – present

Research Associate · NCEAS, UC Santa Barbara

Data analysis for the Wildfire Resilience Index: geospatial pipelines, wildfire-exposure research and interactive maps.

2025 – 2026

Fulbright Scholar, independent research · U.S. Department of State · Asunción, Paraguay

2023

Ocean Health Index Fellow · NCEAS, UC Santa Barbara

Data preparation, processing and score calculation for the annual global assessment.

2019 – 2022

Program Coordinator · UC Santa Barbara

Coordinated the Mellichamp Sustainable Materials and Product Design Initiative: grants, website, marketing, events and stakeholders. Staff TA for Sustainability by the Numbers (2021).

2017 – 2018

Supply Chain & Corporate Responsibility Consultant · Self-employed · Santa Cruz

Advised on international supply chains: data collection, risk management and corporate responsibility.

2015 – 2017

Client Management Team Lead · SupplyShift · Santa Cruz

Led the client team and oversaw supply-chain data programs for Fortune 500 companies.