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related information ( egbc.ca/Practice-Resources/ Climate/Climate-Change-Information-Portal )—and new professional practice guidelines will help members stay informed about the latest climate science affecting their professional practice. Despite the unfolding challenges presented by climate change, Engineers and Geoscientists BC members should expect many new opportunities to emerge in the coming decades. “We’re the go-to people when clients and the public ask, ‘We have to get to this seemingly transformed place—how do we do that?’” Reynolds says. “In the past, innovative engineers and geoscientists might have had ideas, but there was less receptivity to those ideas. That’s changing. Opportunities are opening up for engineers and geoscientists to use their really innovative skills to help society change the way we do things and make this a better, more resilient place to live and work and play.” Technology has always shaped how engineering and geoscience work is conducted. The introduction of handheld scientific calculators, for instance, made manual calculations using a slide rule obsolete. Lasers in the 1960s led to LiDAR, followed by the broader availability of GPS and inertial measurement units in the late 1980s. Improvements to computer processors made CAD broadly (and affordably) available for design work across a range of disciplines. Today, technology is advancing most rapidly in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and big data—areas that are certain to transform the future ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINE LEARNING, AND BIG DATA

where they come from, how long they last, and what happens to them at the end of their lives—will also figure prominently. Engineers will need to design things to be long lasting and adaptable, not disposable. In the coming decades, tools such as Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s Climate Change Information Portal—the association’s centralized source of climate-

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