Renata McCoy is the Life and Climate Science Group Lead in Global Security Computing Applications Division at LLNL. She is the Chief Operating Officer, Project Engineer, and the Executive Committee member of the DOE Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). She has extensive experience and knowledge in broad implementation of project management techniques, project tracking, agile development techniques, and their scaling to enterprise solutions. She had strong domain knowledge in climate science and broad education and experience in atmospheric physics modeling; single-column and global climate model diagnosis, analysis, and intercomparison; computational methods in molecular fluid dynamics; statistical simulations; nonlinear optics; chaotic mixing; ignition simulation; parallel programming; load balancing; high-performance computing; software engineering; observational data analysis; quality controls; data management; and Graphical User Interface design and development.

Ph.D. Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 1994

M.Sc. Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 1989

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6090-0057

 

Selected publications

(R. B. McCoy  formerly  R. B. Rybka) 

Mark A. Taylor (SNL), Peter M. Caldwell (LLNL), Luca Bertagna (SNL), Conrad Clevenger (SNL), Aaron S. Donahue (LLNL), James G. Foucar (SNL), Oksana Guba (SNL), Benjamin R. Hillman (SNL), Noel Keen (LBNL), Jayesh Krishna (ANL), Matthew R. Norman (ORNL), Sarat Sreepathi (ORNL), Christopher R. Terai (LLNL), James B. White III (HPE), Danqing Wu (ANL), Andrew G. Salinger (SNL), Renata B. McCoy (LLNL), L. Ruby Leung (PNNL), David C. Bader (LLNL), The Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model Running on the Frontier Exascale System, Winner of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3581784.3627044

Tang, Q., Golaz, J.-C., Van Roekel, L. P., Taylor, ..., McCoy, R. B., Leung, L. R., and Bader, D. C.: The fully coupled regionally refined model of E3SM version 2: overview of the atmosphere, land, and river results, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 3953–3995, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3953-2023, 2023.

Golaz, J.-C., Van Roekel, L. P., Zheng, X., Roberts, A., Wolfe, J. D., Lin, W., et al. (2022). The DOE E3SM Model Version 2: Overview of the physical model. Climatology (Global Change). https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10511174.1

Davis, X. J., Stan, C., McCoy, R. B., Bader, D. C., Leung, L. R., Taylor, M. A., et al. (2021). DOE ESMD-E3SM 2020 Principal Investigator Meeting Report. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4771217

Leung, L. R., Bader, D. C., Taylor, M. A., & McCoy, R. B. (2020). An Introduction to the E3SM Special Collection: Goals, Science Drivers, Development, and Analysis. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001821

Golaz, J., Caldwell, P. M., Van Roekel, L. P., Petersen, M. R., Tang, Q., Wolfe, J. D., et al. (2019). The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(7), 2089–2129. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001603

Zhao, C., S. Xie, S. A. Klein, A. Protat, M. D. Shupe, S. A. McFarlane, J. M. Comstock, J. Delanoë, M. Deng, M. Dunn, R. J. Hogan, D. Huang, M. P. Jensen, G. G. Mace, R. B. McCoy, E. J. O’Connor, D. D. Turner, Z. Wang 2012: Toward Understanding of Differences in Current Cloud Retrievals of ARM Ground-based Measurements, accepted in JGR, 117, 27,  doi: 10.1029/2011JD016792.

Zhao, C., S. Xie, S. A. Klein, R. McCoy, J. M. Comstock, J. Delanoë, M. Deng, M. Dunn, R. J. Hogan, M. P. Jensen, G. G. Mace, S. A. McFarlane, E. J. O’Connor, A. Protat, M. D. Shupe, D. Turner, and Z. Wang, 2011:  Cloud Retrieval Ensemble Dataset (CRED), ARM Technical Report, DOE/SC-ARM-TR-099

Xie, S., R. B. McCoy, S. A. Klein, R. T. Cederwall, W. J. Wiscombe, E. E. Clothiaux, K. L. Gaustad, J.-C. Golaz, S. Hall, M. P. Jensen, K. L. Johnson, Y. Lin, C. N. Long, J. H. Mather, R. A. McCord, S. A. McFarlane, G. Palanisamy, Y. Shi, and D. Turner, 2010:  CLOUDS AND MORE: ARM Climate Modeling Best Estimate Data.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, 13–20, doi: 10.1175/2009BAMS2891.1

Xie. S, T. Hume, C. Jakob,  S. Klein, R.B. McCoy,  M. Zhang, 2010: Observed Large-Scale Structures and Diabatic Heating and Drying Profiles during TWP-ICE, J. Clim., 23, 57-79, doi: 10.1175/2009JCLI3071.1

Doutriaux, C., R. Drach, R. McCoy, V. Malaker, and D. Williams, 2009:  “Climate Data Analysis Tools: Facilitating Scientific Investigations.”  EOS Trans. AGU, 90(35), doi: 10.1029/2009EO350002.

Klein, S. A., R. B. McCoy, H. Morrison, and 38 Coauthors, 2009:  Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment.  Part I: Single layer cloud.  Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 135:979-1002. doi:10.1002/qj.416.

Morrison, H., R. B. McCoy, S. A. Klein, and 24 Coauthors, 2009:  Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment.  Part II: Multi-layer cloud.  Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 135:1003-1019. doi:10.1002/qj.415.

Zhang, Y., S.A. Klein, C. Liu, B. Tian, R.T. Marchand, J.M. Haynes, R.B. McCoy, Y. Zhang, T.P. Ackerman, 2008: “On the diurnal cycle of deep convection, high clouds and upper troposphere water vapor in the Multi-scale Modeling Framework”, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D16105, doi:10.1029/2008JD009905.

Xie, S., S. Klein, M. Zhang, J. J. Yio, R. T. Cederwall, R. McCoy, 2006:  Developing Large-Scale Forcing Data for Single-Column and Cloud-Resolving Models from the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D19104, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006950

J.D. Myers, T.C. Allison, S. Bittner, B. Didier, M. Frenklach, W.H. Green, Y-L Ho, J. Hewson, W. Koegler, C. Lansing, D. Leahy, M. Lee, R. McCoy, M. Minkoff, S. Nijsure, G. von Laszewski, D. Montoya, L. Oluwole, C. Pancerella, R. Pinzon, W. Pitz, L.A. Rahn, B. Ruscic, K. Schuchardt, E. Stephan, A. Wagner, T. Windus and C. Yang, 2005: “A Collaborative Informatics Infrastructure for Multi-Scale Science”, Cluster Computing, 8, p. 243-253 , DOI 10.1007/s10586-005-4092-4

Stephens, G. L., R.G. Ellingson, J. Vitko Jr, W. Bolton, T.P. Tooman, F.P.J. Valero, P..Minnis, P. Pilewskie, G.S. Phipps, S. Sekelsy, J.R. Carswell, S.D. Miller, A. Benedetti, R.B. McCoy, R.F. McCoy, Jr, A. Lederbuhr, and R. Bambha, 2000: The Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV) Program, Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc., 81, 2915-2937 doi:10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<2915:TDOESA>2.3.CO;2

Stephens, Graeme L., McCoy, Robert F. Jr., McCoy, R. B., Gabriel, P., Partain, P. T., Miller, S. D., 2000: "A Multipurpose Scanning Spectral Polarimeter (SSP): Instrument Description and Sample Results", J. Atmos. and Oceanic Technology, Vol. 17, pp. 616-627. doi: 10.1175/1520-0426(2000)017<0616:AMSSPS>2.0.CO;2

R.B.Rybka, M.Cieplak, P.Haensel, D.Salin, 1995: "Cellular Automata Model of the Accretion Disk", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 298, 637.

U.D'Ortona, D.Salin, M.Cieplak, R.B.Rybka, J.R.Banavar, 1995: "Two-color Nonlinear Boltzmann Cellular Automata: Surface Tension and Wetting", Phys. Rev. E 51, 3718, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.51.3718

R.B.Rybka, M.Cieplak, D.Salin, 1995: "Boltzmann Cellular Automata Studies of the Spinodal Decomposition", Physica A 222, 105, doi:10.1016/0378-4371(95)00209-X

R.B.Rybka, M.Cieplak, U.D'Ortona, D.Salin, J.R.Banavar,1993:"Cellular Automata Studies of Circular Couette Flows and Chaotic Mixing", Phys. Rev. E 48, 757, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.48.757

M.Cieplak, U.D'Ortona, D.Salin, R.B.Rybka, J.R.Banavar, 1992: "Cellular Automata Studies of Mixing in Chaotic Flows", Comp. Mat. Sci. 1, 87, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.48.757

ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling | Shared | 2023

Shared with SCREAM team for submission “The Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model Running on the Frontier Exascale System”

R&D 100 | Shared | 2017

Shared with ESGF team the 2017 R&D 100 Award.

FLC | Shared | 2013

Shared with LLNL ESGF team and 11 partner institutions (LLNL, JPL, ORNL, PMEL, ANL, LBNL, GCCC, EMCCC, GADC, GSFC and IPSL) the award of the Federal Laboratory Consortium's (FLC) For Technology Transfer, Far-West Regional competition for Outstanding Partnerships in development of Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) to serve the data-driven needs of the climate research community for climate change study, 2013.

Nobel Peace Prize | Shared | 2007

Shared the ESGF team for contributions to the Scientific Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4) that shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, 2007. 

Professional Employment

Computer Scientist | LLNL | 2005 - Present

• Life and Climate Science Group Lead in Global Security Computing Applications (GS-CAD) Division since 2020.
• Chief Operating Officer, Project Engineer, and the Executive Committee member of the DOE Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project since 2014. 
• Programmatic Lead of Analytics Informatics and Management System (AIMS) software engineers LLNL team that supports Climate Program, since 2018.
• E3SM Workflow Acting Group Lead, 2017-2018. 
• AIMS LLNL’s group Deputy Leader and Council Member, 2016-2018
• Data management and analysis for DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM), defined and developed Best Estimate (ARMBE) statistical summary datasets, a flagship product for the observational ARM data.

Research Scientist | Sandia National Laboratories | 2003-2005

• Protective and Responsive Options for Airport Counter-Terrorism (PROACT) project
• Atmospheric Radiation Measurement – Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (ARM UAV) project
• Domestic Homeland Security project
• Common Component Architecture (CCA) C++ framework  
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Post-Doc | Sandia National Laboratories| 2000-2003

Reacting Flow Research Department, Combustion Research Facility, Livermore, CA

Post-Doc | Colorado State University | 1996-2000

Atmospheric Science Department, Fort Collins, CO

Research Assistant | Polish Academy of Sciences | 1990-1997

Department of Atmospheric Physics, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. 

Visiting Scientist | University of California | 1995

Scripps Institute of Oceanography, San Diego, CA

Research Scientist | University Marie Curie | 1993-1994

Laboratoire Acoustique et Optique de la Matiere Condense University of Marie Curie, Paris, France

Visiting Scientist | University of Strathclyde | 1989

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.