David Glas
Climate Science • Behavioral Psychology • Data Architecture
David operates at the intersection of behavioral psychology, climate science, and automated data architecture. With a Master’s in Climate Change and Society from North Carolina State University and a background in Psychology from UNC Wilmington, David views environmental data through a dual lens: the rigorous requirements of the physical sciences and the human-centric reality of behavioral strain.
Throughout his career—including roles at the U.S. EPA rebuilding geospatial vulnerability tools and automating emissions reporting for a Fortune 500 corporation—David realized that high-stakes research often fails not at the hypothesis, but at the "plumbing”. Too many teams seemed to spend 80% of their time fighting fragmented spreadsheets rather than analyzing results.
David is a Databricks-certified Data Analyst and is one of the few GARP Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) certification holders worldwide. He founded Piedmont Climate Lab to handle the technical heavy lifting—designing automated "Medallion" pipelines that move data from raw environmental telemetry to audit-ready, research-validated datasets. Whether engineering proprietary heat-stress validation engines like the GREEN2 and STEM cores or developing custom statistical GUIs for epidemiologists, David’s goal is simple: to automate the tedious so that experts can focus on keeping communities and workers safe.