Joe is a climate scientist and civil engineer hailing from the Arizona desert. After a stint as a mountain guide on Denali, Joe launched a scientific career in hydroclimate modeling with a PhD from the University of Washington. After working as a scientist at NCAR, he co-founded CarbonPlan, an open-science climate research and policy think tank. He left CarbonPlan to start Earthmover to focus on the software and data infrastructure challenges at the core of climate science.