Ben is a Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) at Northern Arizona University, the President of Ruddell Environmental consulting, Chief Science Officer for Criticality Sciences Inc., and the Director of the FEWSION supply chain data science project. During 2019-2022 he was the Director of SICCS. His PhD is in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Arizona (Water Resources practice area). His professional experience is in informatics, data science, systems engineering, and generally in the leadership of the interdisciplinary university enterprise. His professional goals are the advancement of the science and management of complex systems, and excellence in education in a university setting. Why? Because our country and world need better solutions to handle chaos and complex problems, and we need better scientists and engineers who know how to best serve their communities with these solutions.Keywords: FEW, Hydrology and Water Resources, Ecohydrology, Watershed Science, Coupled Natural-Human Systems, Geoscience, Citizen Science, Geostatistical Analysis, Complex Systems, Informatics, Information Theory, Data Science, Citizen Science, Data Privacy, Data Ethics, Cyberinfrastructure, GIS, Network Theory, History/Religion/Ethics in Science and Engineering, Geoscience Education, Engineering Education, Appropriate Technology, Urban Systems, Built Environment, Infrastructure, Alternative Energy, Power Systems, Water and Energy Policy, Urban Energy Use, Urban Water Use, Urban Sustainability, Ecohydrology, Hydro-Economics, Regional Climate, Urban Heat Island, Human Health and Climate, Urban Microclimate Engineering, Virtual Water, Life Cycle Analysis, Engineered Resilience, Sustainability and Resilience Assessment, Footprinting, Embedded Resource Accounting.