Max Goodman

Max Goodman is a Remote Sensing Scientist focused on impact analysis and insurance mechanisms in flood mapping.  Max’s work supports machine learning advances by wrangling RS and ground-truth datasets, providing real-world context to apparent trends, and serving as a critical eye to early results.  He is interested in how imperfect data can be used systematically to inform robust resilience decisions (and climate action).
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Max is an alumnus of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he graduated with a BA in Sustainable Development focused on GIS and sustainability management. Max was a member of Project Drawdown’s inaugural cohort of undergraduate scholars, where he used remote sensing to demonstrate tradeoffs between albedo-based warming and carbon-based cooling in high-latitude afforestation.
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In his climate journey outside of Floodbase, Max serves as a policy/research contributor to NYC’s DSA working group on Ecosocialism, and authored an op-ed on Why We Need Climate Stoicism to Overcome Climate Despair.