Jen Hird leads the Earth Observation Insights Unit in the Geospatial Centre at the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI). She has been with the ABMI for 15 years working in satellite remote sensing applications, including land cover mapping, vegetation disturbance and recovery, and multi-temporal landscape dynamics. Leveraging her skills and knowledge to produce large-scale, publicly accessible geospatial information products to support responsible land and resource management is a core passion she shares with her team and the ABMI.