Dr. Brennan Bean is an applied statistician with research interests in engineering, climate, and agriculture/natural resources. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University. He obtained his BS in Applied Mathematics from Brigham Young University-Idaho and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Utah State University. His research interests are Spatial Statistics, Computational Statistics, and Statistical Visualization. He was the lead researcher on the ASCE-funded effort to update the ground snow load geodatabase for ASCE 7-22 and currently serves as the co-lead for the Snow and Ice Task force of the Future Conditions Subcommittee of ASCE 7.