Justin Johnstone

Experience

1. Climate and Data Science Planner

   Metropolitan Transportation Authority

   Feb 2023 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Support identification of climate resilience priorities within MTA’s Twenty-Year Needs Assessment and 5-year Capital Program.• Support the publication of the MTA\'s first Climate Resilience Roadmap, outlining climate resilience goals targeted to address climate threats facing MTA infrastructure. • Co-develop and spearhead the maintenance of the MTA\'s first Climate Vulnerability Assessment, improving awareness of climate hazard exposure to MTA assets system-wide. • Develop the Climate Exposure Web App designed to enable project leads to assess climate hazard exposures prior to project design, systematically improving the agency\'s resiliency efforts.Support the development of the Hudson Line Blueprint, a scoping document that outlines the tasks required to help collect preliminary engineering data that will further drive Metro-North\'s resiliency efforts. • Assessed NYC Transit facilities against FEMA flood data for compliance with FTA regulations, leveraging GIS to identify high-risk assets.• Developed a framework to guide climate resiliency investment prioritization along the Metro-North Hudson Line, incorporating geospatial analysis, cross-platform workflows, and stakeholder collaboration.• Support efforts to address chronic flooding issues facing Mott Haven Yard, analyzing service impact data, collaborate with NYC DEP, review historic scoping documents. • Produced high-impact graphics for MTA leadership briefings, translating complex spatial data into actionable insights.• Work with consultants, reviewing consultant deliverables, and providing timely and thoughtful feedback that improves the quality of deliverables.• Utilize large databases, including asset assessments, asset inventories, regional planning information, transit usage, climate risk data, socio-economic and demographic information to develop planning tools for prioritization that underpin the agency’s capital strategy.

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  City and Regional Planning, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning

  2019 — 2021

• University of Georgia - Terry College of Business

  Consumer Economics , Music Business and Consumer Econ

  2015 — 2018

• Kennesaw State University

  Core Academics

  2014 — 2014