Dean Gelling
Geospatial Technologist · New York, NY
Dean Gelling is a geospatial data scientist currently living in New York, NY. He is employed both as a Geospatial Data Engineer at Lithos Carbon and as a research consultant at NASA’s Ames and Langley research centers through NASA’s EarthRISE Developers Academy.
Dean’s expertise is grounded in applications for remote sensing, earth systems modeling, and climate risk analytics. His past work includes satellite monitoring of harmful algal blooms and coastal biogeochemistry, remotely sensed risk assessments for cryospheric hazards in High Mountain Asia, geodetic reconstruction of iceflow dynamics in the Juneau Icefield, and the development of commercial-scale geospatial data pipelines to support enhanced rock weathering (ERW) projects.
In his free time, he enjoys cycling in Central Park, studying Persian language and literature, and eating at diners.
“The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing from a limb and not falling, accelerating thirty-two feet per second per second, through the empty air. Just a breath before he would have been dashed to the ground, he unfurled his wings with exact, deliberate care, revealing the broad bars of white.
I had just rounded a corner when his insouciant step caught my eye; no one else was in sight. The fact of his free fall was like the old philosophical conundrum about the tree that falls in the forest. The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek