Dear members of the GRASS community,
Brendan Harmon has accepted a nomination by Vaclav Petras:
Brendan Harmon is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Louisiana State University where he specializes in spatial science, computational design, and robotics. He authored the addons r.sim.terrain and r.earthworks, both described in peer-reviewed papers. He wrote seven tutorials for the GRASS tutorials website, including a series on terrain modeling with r.earthworks and getting started with GRASS for Conda. His “GIS for Designers” course, which prominently features GRASS, is also listed there, with a YouTube playlist of 12 videos with thousands of views. He maintains two global datasets based on Natural Earth, a basic one downloadable through GUI and a full one on the GRASS website co- maintained with Paulo van Breugel, and has more datasets on Zenodo. He contributed a color table, images, and citation file updates to the main and website repos. He is an active tester, reporting bugs and requesting features, recently many for GRASS on Conda. His work resulted in 38 pull requests and 51 issues across the GRASS repositories. He took part in the GRASS Developers Summit in 2025. Brendan brings a designer and educator perspective to the community.