Puneet Kollipara is a multidimensionally minded geospatial data scientist, analyst and communicator in Washington, DC. He recently became a Data Analyst at UpSlope Advisors Inc., a distinguished 8(a) professional engineering federal-contracting firm committed to delivering IT and GEOINT solutions for a variety of agencies. Drawing upon open-source geospatial tools and techniques and his experience as a science communicator, Puneet will be analyzing, distilling and conveying insights from scientific, social, economic and other datasets in support of federal disaster-recovery initiatives. A Climatebase Fellowship alumnus and a current Climatematch Impact Scholar, Puneet seeks to bring people in data, geospatial and climate/environmental professional communities together around values of open data, open science, open-source technologies and science communication for social and environmental betterment.

Previously a science and environmental journalist, he spent almost a decade reporting and blogging for dozens of news outlets and institutions, including The Washington Post, Science, Chemical & Engineering News, AGU’s Eos, MIT’s Undark Magazine, Science News, Bloomberg News, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, SciDev.net, Inside EPA, the American Chemical Society and the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and economics from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.