Jeff Hamerlinck, AICP, is an environmental geographer, community planner, and information scientist working at the intersection of information and communication technologies for multifunctional rural landscapes, applying scenario planning–enabled geodesign solutions to climate risk and local digital twin design for smart rural places. He is the associate director of the University of Wyoming’s School of Computing (UW/SoC), where he also leads the school’s Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center and new Center for Rural Community Resilience and Innovation. The immediate past president of the University Consortium for Geographic Information, he currently serves on the US National Geospatial Advisory Council and on the Consortium for Scenario Planning’s advisory board. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Colorado Boulder and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners with a GIS Professional designation from the GIS Certification Institute.