Jiaao Guo is currently a first year Ph.D. student at Applied Geospatial Research Group (AGRG), University of Calgary and a part-time geospatial research coordinator. He has worked at Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) since 2022, where he applies his hands-on experience working on commercial satellite images, lidar, and cloud-based remote sensing platforms. Prior to joining AGRG/ABMI, he was a remote sensing analyst at Government of Northwest Territories and a firefighter volunteer in Inuvik, NT. Jiaao has a B.Sc. in Environmental Science (University of Western Ontario), and Masters in GIS (University of Calgary), and is also a part-time research assistant working with different teams at Canadian Mountain Network.