About
From complexity science to software.
PTEM Labs began with an interest in complexity science: how organization emerges, persists, and changes across scales. Historical hurricane records offered a concrete starting point for exploring those questions.
That work led to the Observatory and a broader effort to build software that helps people explore data, inspect results, and understand how an assessment was reached and what supports trust in it.
Founder
Nathan Howell
Nathan Howell is the founder of PTEM Labs LLC, based in Florida, United States. His work connects research questions with the data pipelines, analytical tools, and browser applications needed to investigate them.
Explore the work
Historical hurricane research
Read the findings, methods, and limitations alongside public reproducibility materials.
The Observatory
Explore six historical storms through a descriptive replay of the recorded observations.
Software projects
Discuss data infrastructure, analytical software, or an evaluation for your own use case.