Climate Drift’s Post

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as a Senior Programmer and Analyst at Cornell University! More on this transition 👇 Earlier this year, I spent 8 weeks as part of the first Climate Drift career development cohort. I learned a ton about the diversity of work happening in climate and truly gained a new sense of motivation and optimism to continue my journey to work on climate. I’ve been looking for opportunities to get back to hands on technical work as I transition to working on climate. I feel very lucky to have the opportunity to work with Xiangtao Xu in the Biosphere Modeling and Monitoring lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell. I’ll be working on developing and improving software for segmenting trees from terrestrial laser scanning data, which has many interesting applications for monitoring forests. This is an exciting opportunity for me to help build real world solutions for carbon and biodiversity monitoring. I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to lean into my technical skills and see where it takes me! I want to thank Marco and Skander for building Climate Drift and their support both during and after the program, as well as my fellow “drifties”. Conversations with this passionate and talented group of professionals (shout out to Jeff Folino and Berkay Issevenler in particular for many conversations during the program) left me feeling more understood as well as motivated as a professional navigating a big career transition. We need all the talent we can get working on climate. If you’re interested and want to chat about my experience please reach out!