 My name is Adrian. I'm a biology student at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Pedra's campus. The reason I want to become a scientist is that I believe no other collective and multi-generational endeavor to gain knowledge and understanding has gotten us closer to the truth than science. We might just need some truth in the years ahead in order to solve the plethora of problems that upcoming generations face. There is a myriad of problems, plenty of them for our choosing. I aspire to leave less work for those who come after us. I came to NEON because I want to make a difference. We need advanced technology if we hope to keep up with changes in our world's ecosystems. I've been working in the Airborne Observation Platform Department where we collect LIDAR and hyperspectral data to provide scientists the clues we need to understand the changes we are experiencing and to better manage the planet we all share. Because this technology is relatively new, we don't have many tools to analyze our data. That's where I come in. I am writing software to be incorporated as a plugin into an open source and freely available GIS software package called QGIS. The plugin will open NEON hyperspectral data with proper georeferencing information so that future researchers can use the program's existing functionality to do further analyses. My project will provide more people with the necessary tools to benefit from the use of NEON data.