Michelle Weirathmueller, PhD
Waveform Analytics
Wilmington, NC · est. 2024
Selected work
Science · 2018-ongoing
Spec-driven animal movement and sound exposure modeling for regulatory compliance work. Tests are thorough, outputs are reproducible, and the documentation is written for whoever picks this up next.
Science · 2024-ongoing
Collaborative work with Liz Ferguson (Ocean Science Analytics) testing whether acoustic indices can predict biological activity across aquatic environments. Indices predicted presence reliably but not activity counts — a distinction that matters for large-scale PAM monitoring programs.
Tools · 2026-ongoing
A scientific adaptation of GitHub's spec-kit. Reproducibility, documentation, and process are part of the workflow from the start, not added at the end. Plugs into AI coding tools via an adapter system.
Github page ↗
Community · 2026
A neighborhood discovery app for Pleasure Island — local businesses, events, and community resources. Built to production standard.
Local sunshine web app ↗
About
I founded Waveform Analytics in 2024 after more than a decade in ocean acoustics — graduate research at University of New Hampshire and University of Washington, then noise exposure modeling at JASCO Applied Sciences. Eventually I wanted to build the tools rather than just use them.
My background is marine acoustics and engineering. In practice I build scientific analysis pipelines, software tools, community web apps, and data workflows across whatever domain needs them — marine science, civic tech, local community projects.
I follow spec-driven development, write tests, and document everything assuming someone else will inherit it later. Reproducibility is a requirement, not a feature.
Education
PhD Oceanography
University of Washington, 2016
MS Ocean Engineering
University of New Hampshire
BS Geomatics Engineering
University of New Brunswick
Stack
Python · Next.js · TypeScript · D3 · Marimo · uv · PostgreSQL
Contact
Interested in working together, or just want to talk about something you're building? Get in touch.
michelle@waveformanalytics.com