Laura Hutchinson

Experience

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  Resilient Analytics

  Apr 2017 - Aug 2017

  Programmer

  Developed a drought index as part of a MATLAB program that performs climate change vulnerability risk assessments for infrastructure like buildings and roads. The program takes civil infrastructure data and gives both likelihoods of structural vulnerabilities and the costs associated with damage over time according to climate model projections.

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  NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory

  Apr 2017 - Jun 2017

  Intern

  Retrieved radar refractivity data for a field campaign from 2015 by writing MATLAB scripts and troubleshooting phase algorithms to help identify calibration periods, and created a framework for identifying and applying them in future datasets.

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  Dartmouth College

  Jun 2017 - Jun 2019

  Collected and analyzed energy and utilities data to keep Dartmouth accountable on its energy-related sustainability goals as outlined in 2017. Work included:1) detailed greenhouse gas accounting with complex institutional datasets;2) frequent engagement with college administrators and campus operations staff, Town staff, and students; and 3) research that supported the campus energy transition towards a biomass and biofuels-powered hot water district heating system, solar PV, building retrofits, and electric vehicles. Show less

  • Energy and Utilities Intern, Sustainability Office

    Sept 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Undergraduate Researcher, Department of Earth Sciences

    Jun 2017 - Jun 2019
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  RMI

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Intern - City Renewables Accelerator

  Through interviews and research, helped understand and validate the need for, as well as design, a new program that will help support city renewable energy procurement in the US.

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  Town of Hanover, NH

  Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  UNH Sustainability Fellow

  Informed Hanover’s Renewable Energy Deployment Action Plan by analyzing community electricity baseline data, designing procurement implementation and communications strategies, and developing best practices guides to share internally and with other local municipalities.

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  RMI

  Sept 2019 - now

  Working to decarbonize global hard-to-abate sectors through the Mission Possible Partnership and Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance. Worked to curb methane emissions from the natural gas supply chain through development of MiQ - a methane emissions performance standard for natural gas.

  • Manager, Climate-Aligned Industries

    Mar 2022 - now

  • Senior Associate, Climate-Aligned Industries

    Feb 2021 - Mar 2022

  • Associate - Climate Intelligence and Climate-Aligned Industries

    Sept 2019 - Feb 2021
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  MiQ - Methane Intelligence

  Nov 2020 - Feb 2021

  Associate - MiQ

  MiQ is an independent, not-for-profit partnership between Rocky Mountain Institute and SYSTEMIQ. In this role I helped design and write the MiQ standard and certification program that is now actively supporting and bringing light to methane emissions abatement in the oil & gas sector through certified & differentiated gas.