This week in our ‘5 questions with…’ series, we put the spotlight on Cody Beedlow, Project Manager.
Q.1 – What excites you most about Gill and your role here?
Gill is going in some really exciting directions. I am excited to join the team and help contributing to accomplishing their goals.
Q.2 – What interests you most about the industry?
I have been in this industry for a number of years now. I love creating solutions to help customers solve complex environmental monitoring problems. There is, and will always be, a need for better data and more of it.
Q.3 –How do you see technology impacting your role over the next 5 years?
Sensors are going to get faster, smarter, and more accurate. Observation systems and networks will become more connected using wireless and cloud technologies. There will also be a densification in our observation networks to better understand the spatial variability in our observations. This will help with decision making, mitigation, and policy with a changing climate. AI will improve observations and forecasting, so customers will be better informed to make mission-critical decisions.
Q.4 -Who has inspired you the most in your career, and what did you learn from them?
My dad inspired me the most in my career. He was a research scientist for the US EPA and it was him and his colleagues who mentored me in environmental monitoring sensors and systems.
Q.5 -Tell us something about yourself that might surprise us.
My educational background is in Glaciology. In graduate school, I used to build weather stations and deploy them on glaciers to quantify and model snow and ice melt.
