Stephanie Ho

Posted by Stephanie Ho, USDA Office of Communications in Forestry Technology USDA partnered for the first time with Women in Data for the non-governmental organization’s just-concluded Climate Sustainability Datathon, which is a friendly contest for people who really like to work with data. Third place winner, Team Jenga, used data from the Forest Service’s Climate Risk Viewer, which team member Naisargi Dave enjoyed working with.

Posted by Stephanie Ho, USDA Office of Communications in Initiatives Veteran John Langdon served for 20 years of active duty in the U.S. Army, including deployments in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. He retired in July 2021, with a full career of service under his belt, but without a full appreciation of how challenging it would be to find a civilian job. “I was finally out of the military, so then I was kind of scrambling – very stressful ... I sent out resumes everywhere,” he said.

Posted by Stephanie Ho, USDA Office of Communications in Conservation Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)’s 2023 Engineer of the Year, Peter Clark is clear about the importance of what people like him do. Engineers “harness the math, harness the statistics … and apply science” to figure out how to solve a problem, such as building a dam to help capture and slowly release runoff from rainfall events to reduce flooding impacts.