Mike Halbleib has been a faculty research assistant in the PRISM Climate Group, Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering, since 2003. He serves as a GIS specialist, creating cartographic maps and performing spatial analyses derived from the PRISM spatial climate datasets. He also has interests in agricultural geography, and played a key role in developing suitability maps for potential biofuel feedstocks as part of the Sun Grant Initiative. He is currently working to develop crop insurance yield screening tools for the USDA Risk Management Agency.