Alex Sweeney is a geospatial analyst with experience in the climate, environmental remote sensing, and GIS fields. At Project Drawdown, she works with colleagues to reveal the geographic context to climate solutions and communicate the team’s critical work through maps.
For the past 6.5 years, Alex worked for a consulting firm, TRC/Locana, with a vast array of geospatial data ranging from climate model outputs to vector point layers. Alex engaged with a wide variety of clients spanning NGOs to major tech companies on their geospatial data needs and collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver web-based mapping applications and client specific outputs. She’s adept at moving between proprietary and open-source technologies and is always looking to learn the latest geospatial tools. Prior to this, Alex ramped up her skills as a research assistant at Portland State University and through the NASA DEVELOP Program at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society. Her interdisciplinary background affords her the ability to leverage different geospatial techniques to analyze data, publish sector specific outputs, and draw meaningful insights.
Alex has also held short-term appointments with the World Bank and the Years of Living Dangerously documentary series as a science writer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Earth and Space Exploration from Arizona State University and a master’s degree in Climate and Society from Columbia University.
Outside of work Alex enjoys reading books to her curious toddler, running much too slowly for her effervescent lab, projecting routes at the local climbing gym (while trying not to take herself too seriously), and exploring North America by camper van with her family.