Edward obtained his Ph.D. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Alberta in 2002 during which time he also served as the Surficial Geologist for the Canada–Nunavut Geoscience Office in Iqaluit, Nunavut. After nearly 4 years at the Iqaluit office, serving both as a research scientist and as the Chief Geologist, Edward was deployed by NRCan to the Geologic Survey of Canada’s Calgary office in late 2004 where he continued to focus his research on glacial geology, landscape evolution and ice sheet dynamics as they pertain to the risk reduction of mineral exploration in remote, extensively drift covered Arctic regions. In 2006, he was seconded to the position of Acting Director, GSC-Calgary where he was responsible for the Energy Business Line for NRCan’s Earth Sciences Sector, followed by a year as the Acting Operations Manager of that facility. From 2008–2016, Dr. Little managed and directed the CanmetENERGY Upgrading Program (formerly NCUT)—the Canadian Federal Government’s premiere research laboratory investigating new technologies that have the potential to reduce the environmental footprint of heavy oil and bitumen conversion into final transportation fuels used by society everyday. In 2017, he accepted a deployment back to the Geological Survey of Canada in Calgary where he currently resides as the Head of the Energy Geoscience Subdivision and the Program Manager for the GSC's national program: Geoscience for New Energy Supply (GNES).