Joe Hack Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco Bay Area

I joined the World Resources Institute (WRI) in June 2024 through RMI’s Transmission Fellowship, a new initiative to expand the availability of qualified professionals working to advance transmission buildout at the pace and scale necessary to decarbonize the US grid. At WRI, I work on communicating the benefits of interregional transmission and advanced.

San Francisco Bay Area

I joined the World Resources Institute (WRI) in June 2024 through RMI’s Transmission Fellowship, a new initiative to expand the availability of qualified professionals working to advance transmission buildout at the pace and scale necessary to decarbonize the US grid. At WRI, I work on communicating the benefits of interregional transmission and advanced.

San Francisco Bay Area

I maintain an active performance career and have sung with several companies including Wolf Trap Opera, the Livermore Valley Opera, and the Aspen Vocal Arts Festival.

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-stack solar energy modeling expert who builds custom software and performs high-value analyses for leading developers, providing the services of both an independent engineer and software developer.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on the development engineering team to maintain and improve the energy-modeling infrastructure of one of the nation's largest solar developers. Led and assisted in dozens of coding projects and acted as an energy model inputs negotiator on many sales. Key accomplishments included:1. The creation of a suite of Jupyter Notebooks that empowered 30+.

Lafayette, Colorado

Created computer models and other products to help the organization further its mission of bird and Playa (seasonal wetlands) conservation in the Great Plains. My projects included:1. The creation of random forest and maximum entropy models to predict build-out of wind turbines in the PLJV region. This code is being developed into an R package that will be.

Greater Omaha Area

I interned with the development engineering team at Cypress Creek Renewables, a utility-scale solar company. My key duties were:1. To perform spatial analyses to determine the presence of wetlands and other obstructions.2. To interpret environmental surveys to determine the regulatory status of relevant wetlands. 3. To use energy production models to.

Greater Omaha Area

I was hired by the organization to create a custom tool that allows them to visualize their properties and tax information. The product took the form of an ArcExplorer map.

Stanford, CA

- Assisted undergraduates in the Earth Systems Department plan their academic careers.- Organized a networking event for 12 alumni and 40 undergraduates.- Maintained a database of 200 alumni.

- Tutored undergraduate and graduate students in powerpoint creation, presentation skills and storytelling.- Lead presentation skill workshops

Stanford University

I work to understand how land use change affects birds in neotropical and temperate systems. In the summer of 2015, I investigated the effects of deforestation on hummingbird distributions in the Peruvian Amazon. I presented this work at an undergraduate research symposium and am working on a publication. Recently, I conducted my thesis research on the.

B.S. With Honors, Earth Systems

Activities and Societies: Talisman A Capella, SLOCO, BlackStage

Master'S Degree, Voice And Opera

Voice and Opera, full-tuition scholarship

Disease Evolution And Ecology

-Participated in Stanford's BING Overseas Program.