Dr. Ethan Gutmann, project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has worked with the USACE climate preparedness and resilience program for 10 years. He has developed a model that simulates local atmospheric conditions 100 times faster than a traditional atmospheric model, enabling for the first time, a physically based simulation of thousands of years of weather, at high enough spatial resolutions, to resolve mountains, coastlines and other aspects of local hydrometeorology. (Photo courtesy Dr. Ethan Gutmann)