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Shortly after the<\/span> COVID pandemic hit, inspiration struck Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman. The pair had been watching the \u201cmass mobilization\u201d of the epidemiology research community, Abernathey said.<\/p>\n \u201cJoe and I were both thinking at the time, \u2018We wanted to be part of something with that level of intensity and urgency around climate change.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Abernathey and Hamman met while working on open-source projects, including Pangeo and Xarray, both of which gave them a taste of where the field was heading. Abernathey, who is an associate professor of Earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University, said he saw his lab\u2019s work on tools having a greater impact than the results of their research projects.<\/p>\n Hamman, who previously worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, also foresaw how data tools could begin to change the field. The business world was benefiting from a slew of new tools that worked well for their data types. \u201cBut none of those really exist for scientific data,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The pair eventually connected with Tony Liu, a partner at Costanoa Ventures who specializes in data infrastructure.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve seen the transformation of the business analytics world over the last few years,\u201d Liu said, \u201cwhere you have this ecosystem of cloud-native tooling that\u2019s emerged that really reduces the complexity for someone less specialized to set up data infrastructure in their company. We believe that a similar pattern will emerge here.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re seeing use of climate data increase, even among our portfolio \u2014 there\u2019s several companies that are making use of climate data at scale. And also we expect a continued, massive investment into climate tech companies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The scale of the data, and of the problem, is why Abernathey and Hamman\u2019s new company, Earthmover, raised a $1.7 million pre-seed round from Liu and Costanoa, learned exclusively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shortly after the COVID pandemic hit, inspiration struck Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman. The pair had been watching the \u201cmass mobilization\u201d of the epidemiology research community, Abernathey said. \u201cJoe and I were both thinking at the time, \u2018We wanted to be part of something with that level of intensity and urgency around climate change.\u2019\u201d Abernathey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1221548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}