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Eric Audiffred reposted thisEric Audiffred reposted thisRemediation Engineer Johanna Pavlowsky, PE will be presenting at Battelle's 2024 #ChlorinatedConference on Wednesday, June 5 in the Mile High Ballroom, Room 3b. For more information, visit: https://lnkd.in/gTFvMeQM Learn more about our Remediation & Technical Solutions: https://ow.ly/XJ8O50RSRU7 #SiteCharacterizations #EmergingContaminants #Remediation #EnvironmentalServices #GroundWater #InPursuitOfBetter
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Eric Audiffred reposted thisEric Audiffred reposted thisSneak preview, but I just finished climbing a 200-foot ladder to install some Ribbit Network Frog sensors! I have a lot more stories, pictures, and official info to share soon, but couldn't wait to show everyone the work we did yesterday fulfilling a big goal of mine for Ribbit! We headed down to Oregon to deploy two sensors in the Wind River Experimental Forrest at the NEON/AmeriFlux monitoring site. We climbed the tower (it’s 74 m / 234 ft) and installed two sensors at different heights. This effort is not only incredible thanks to the data we will gather compared to the high-grade science sensors already on the tower, but it also demonstrates the power of our open-source community to achieve big things. More to come on the power of open-source later, but 1 year ago, this project didn't exist. We didn't have contacts at NEON/Ameriflux or the Forrest Service. A Ribbit community member sent a cold email to the site and learned how to install a sensor and what is required organizationally and technically. That kicked off the development of the PoE sensor which was completed by a distributed team of volunteers distributed around the world. So excited to learn from the data and share stories to inspire positive active for climate and STEAM learning to citizen scientists everywhere. #ribbitnetwork #opensource #engineering #climbing #citizenscience #climate
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Eric Audiffred shared this📢 Exciting Announcement! 🌍 I'm thrilled to share that tomorrow, on Tuesday May 23rd, I'll be representing Ribbit Network at the NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Global Monitoring Annual Conference in Boulder. I'll be presenting a poster session titled "The Power of Community: Collaborative Development and Deployment of Low-Cost CO2 Sensors at Scale." 🔗 Here's the link to my abstract: https://lnkd.in/gZE8NfUB This conference brings together leading experts and professionals in the field of climate monitoring and environmental sustainability. I'm excited to showcase Ribbit Network's groundbreaking work and contribute to the collective knowledge on combatting climate change. Our presentation will focus on the immense potential of community collaboration in the development and widespread deployment of low-cost CO2 sensors. By leveraging the power of community engagement and participation, we can create scalable solutions that revolutionize the monitoring of carbon dioxide levels and contribute to our global efforts in mitigating climate change. If you're attending the conference, I encourage you to drop by my poster session to learn more about our innovative approach and ways you can get involved. I'd love to connect and explore potential collaborations. Alternatively, if you're unable to attend but still interested in our work, feel free to reach out. I would be more than happy to provide additional information and discuss how we can collaborate in the future. Looking forward to a great conference! 🌱🌎 #NOAAConference #ClimateAction #Collaboration #Sustainability #RibbitNetwork #co2emissions #cuboulder
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Eric Audiffred shared thisEric Audiffred shared thisThe New York Times knows a good deal when they see it! #MinerPride #SolvingForTomorrow https://lnkd.in/gHc2-bht
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Eric Audiffred shared thisEric Audiffred shared thisA few weeks ago, some of the core team of Ribbit Network, including our executive director, had a chance to travel to Orlando and assist a large US corporation with their annual corporate event. The event was a blast! The executives got a chance to work together in teams of three and build 90 climate sensors in just 45 minutes. It was an exciting opportunity for them to create something amazing and expand Ribbit's impact through educational opportunities and access. One of the most exciting parts of the event was that four of those sensors were immediately handed off to the Orlando Science Center. This is a great chance for Ribbit to work with educators and get our technology into the hands of young people who will be thrilled to use it for STEM activities. It's amazing to think that the sensors built by these executives will be used to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. After the event, there was a tour of the Orlando Science Center. Our representative was introduced to both their head of Corporate partnerships and education leads. This is a great opportunity to build an exciting partnership that can bring Ribbit's technology to a broader audience of educators and learners. We can't wait to see where this partnership takes us and to share our progress with you! #education #technology #event #climate #stem #stemeducation #climateeducation
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Eric Audiffred shared thisEric Audiffred shared thisCheck out all these Frogs! Thanks to Hudson Creative Group, LLC, we received the first scaled batch of 3D printed parts for 160 Frog Sensors (That’s 640 parts)! They took on a big challenge, working with us to print these parts with entirely recycled PETG filament, helping us achieve our sustainability goals and build the most responsible Frogs we could. https://lnkd.in/gWdzXvEf #sustainability #creative #3dprinting #manufacturing
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Eric Audiffred shared thisEric Audiffred shared thisDo you want to work on climate or build a portfolio of impact work? We are growing the core team at Ribbit Network and we need your help! Ribbit is currently gaining a lot of momentum and the opportunities for impact currently exceed our team's ability to execute them. For example, this month alone, we will deliver almost 200 Ribbit Network Frog Sensors to be placed in schools around the US. Great open-source projects are made great by incredible teams of core volunteers. If that sound exciting to you, please follow the link below to reach out. We are looking for the following core members: Education ------------------------------------ * Curriculum Development Lead Engineering ------------------------------------ - Cloud / Backend Software Lead - Frog Sensor Development Lead - Testing / Sensor Validation Lead Operations ------------------------------------ - Funding / Grants Lead - Social Media Lead Ribbit Network is a non-profit (501c3) building the missing map of CO2 emission sources through open-source, crowd-sourced sensors that will empower anyone to join in the work on climate and provide informed data for climate action. See the full list, role description, and how to reach out here: https://lnkd.in/gdNWaest #team #education #engineering #cloud #software #building #volunteering #climateaction #climate #climatetech #nonprofit #opensource #schools #development #opportunities
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Eric Audiffred shared thisEric Audiffred shared thisAre you a software engineer? Do you want to become more involved in the core engineering team of Ribbit? The project is really gaining some momentum and we are starting to recruit a few more key members of the core team. On the engineering side, one of the biggest gaps is a lead for our Cloud / Backend Software. Are you or someone you know interested in taking the lead there? See more at the job posting here and please reach out to me with any questions or ideas of people we could bring into the community to serve this critical role. https://lnkd.in/g5BpDThu #engineering #cloud #software #softwareengineer #community
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Eric Audiffred shared thisEric Audiffred shared this2023 is shaping up to be an excellent year for Ribbit Network and we have just published our Q1 newsletter! We have a lot of exciting updates to share with you on our progress, so check it out, share it with your network, and subscribe! We are building a crowdsourced network of open-source, Gas Detection Sensors. https://lnkd.in/gicR76vr #climate #citizenscience #iot #opensource #nonprofit #sensors #greenhousegas
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This leadership program was one of the best educational experiences I've had. The course content translates so well into everyday life. Glad to have had the opportunity!
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Eric Audiffred liked thisEric Audiffred liked thisThank You, Better Being Co. As I close this chapter, I want to take a moment to thank Better Being for the opportunities, experiences, and memories made along the way. I’m grateful for the people I had the chance to work with, the challenges that helped me grow, and the lessons I’ll carry with me into the next chapter. I also want to give a special thank you to the current People Team and Safety Admins… I have always appreciated the work being push for real and meaningful change. The effort you put into listening, supporting employees, and making things better does not go unnoticed. I truly hope you continue to have the support and opportunity to make the positive impact you’re working toward. I truly wish Better Being and everyone there nothing but continued success. Thank you for being a part of my journey, and I’m excited to see what the future holds for everyone. Daniel Guevara
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Eric Audiffred liked thisEric Audiffred liked thisWe have spent twenty years getting good at being found. Almost none of that work matters to the thing that is about to do the finding. For two decades the discovery problem was a human problem. Shelf placement, search keywords, reviews, the packaging that catches an eye in an aisle. All of it built around a person browsing and choosing. That is quietly being replaced. A growing share of purchase decisions now start as a question to an AI assistant, and the assistant does not browse. It reads whatever structured data it can verify, forms a judgment, and returns one answer. Not a page of ten options. An answer. Here is the detail that reframed this for me. In our category, quality claims usually live in language written for people. A claim like "made in a certified facility" reads as a quality signal to any human being. But it takes a paragraph to explain, and it is a claim about a building rather than a claim about the product in your hand. A product-level certification takes no explanation at all. A person weighs both and calls it a tie. A machine can only verify one of them. So two products of identical quality can end up on opposite sides of that answer, and the difference has nothing to do with the product. It is a data problem. What makes this hard is that nobody owns it. It is not marketing, because it is not messaging. It is not IT, because it is not infrastructure. It is not R&D or regulatory, though it touches both. It sits in the seams, which is exactly where problems go unowned until they become expensive. I think a lot of good companies are going to quietly stop being recommended and never see it in a report, because there is no line item for the answer you were not part of. The work is unglamorous. Getting your product data structured, verifiable, and machine-readable. It will not demo well at a leadership meeting. It also decides whether you exist in the channel that is replacing the one you optimized for.
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Eric Audiffred liked thisEric Audiffred liked thisExcited to share a new chapter in my career! I recently joined HydroJug as Senior Inventory Manager, continuing my career in supply chain while stepping into a new area of focus. This opportunity allows me to deepen my expertise in a part of the business I genuinely enjoy, continue supporting multiple brands within CPG, and bring my broader supply chain experience to inventory strategy in a more focused way. I’m especially grateful for a next step that feels aligned with both where I want to grow professionally and the balance and fulfillment I want to prioritize along the way. I’ve learned that growth isn’t always defined by a title — sometimes it’s about finding the right opportunity, the right focus, and the right fit. Can’t wait for what’s ahead with HydroJug + ACTA . 🤍
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Eric Audiffred liked thisEric Audiffred liked thisI’m excited to officially share that I’ve recently joined HydroJug + ACTA as Director of Inventory Planning! My career has taken me through both automotive and CPG, giving me the opportunity to build a broad foundation across supply chain and business operations. There’s so much momentum across HydroJug + ACTA, and I’m excited to help build the inventory strategy and foundation that will support what’s ahead, while continuing to learn, grow and expand my perspective with new challenges across the business. Here’s to new opportunities and continued growth 🤍
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Eric Audiffred liked thisEric Audiffred liked thisOne year ago, I was in a pretty dark place and it's crazy to look back on it and see where work / life has taken me since then. It's May 2025 and I've just lost our dog of 16 years :(. Also the political tides have just shifted in the USA and all of the funding / opportunities I was chasing for my open source climate work via Ribbit Network has just evaporated, so I'm feeling quite bad and pessimistic about the future. My last scheduled event for Ribbit was the Open Source Hardware Association's summit in Edinburgh (sad I can't make this year and sending love to all the folks traveling to Berlin this weekend). So I hopped on the plane after furiously building as many sensor kits as I could shove into a pelican case and flew to the event. I dragged that pelican case through the lovely town and then had the most amazing time meeting people full of hope and optimism about what the future could be and was suddenly reenergized. Around the same time, I felt it was prudent to spent less of my working life in the non profit space and founded my new company Bread Board Foundry to try to tackle problems that have been bothering me in hardware engineering and manufacturing that I've run into over and over again in my consulting work. In my mind, the two efforts, impact and for-profit software were entirely separate and I was putting one on pause for the other, but wow it seems that I was wrong. Our first product at bread board was built to solve the specific needs I had with small batch manufacturing from my most recent time running our little sensor production line at ribbit. I assumed that ribbit was such a weird one-off case, and the rest of our customers would be robotics companies or otherwise. So far I've been wrong. Most of the interest has come from ecology and science organizations that are scaling up their work and exist in a weird niche no one else understands. Then I was launched into my work with the Seattle aquarium training visual machine learning models, also for ecology, which led to our small GPU rental service of the business. We've built a few more products since then and our consulting work for similar organizations seems to be on a stead-ish path of growth. I'm still on the path building and there are lots of challenges ( I still don't know how ribbit finds it's way exactly, but I'm still working on it), but feeling more optimistic than I was last year.
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Eric Audiffred liked thisEric Audiffred liked thisI’m excited to share that I have officially started a new position with Better Being Co. as a Corporate & Commercial FP&A Analyst. I’m grateful for the opportunity to join a company with a strong mission and look forward to contributing my experience in financial planning, analysis, and strategic decision-making to help drive impactful results. This next chapter is an exciting opportunity to continue growing as a finance professional, deepen my understanding of the business, and collaborate with talented teams across the organization. I’m excited for what’s ahead and eager to make a meaningful impact 🚀
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