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BACKGROUND: About ten years ago, I interned as a meteorologist for the SoyFACE project at the University of Illinois (which is still ongoing today!). The goal of SoyFACE is to discover the effects of atmospheric change on Midwestern crops and find solutions that will lead to the crops being better adapted in the future. This included growing acres of soybeans from seed to harvest while …

Ben Castellani

Ben grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania and holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in Meteorology, the latter being from CU Boulder. His hometown received nearly three feet of snow from the Storm of the Century back in March of 1993, sparking his initial interest in impactful weather. Ben currently works on remote sensing and data analysis software at NV5 Geospatial Software in Boulder.