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Committees

• Executive Committee, National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network (NCSMMN)
• Mesonet Steering Committee and Data Aggregation and Regional Services Subcommittee, American Association of State Climatologists (AASC)
• Upper Missouri River Basin Monitoring Network, United States Army Corps of Engineers
  • Governance/Siting Committee
  • Instrumentation Committee (lead)
  • Data Management Committee

Professional Memberships

• American Association of State Climatologists
• American Meteorological Society

The , which receives more than a million page views annually, is one of SDSU's most visible and impactful outreach efforts. The Mesonet is also engaged with partners across the state such as the agricultural industry and Tribes to help them make use of the services the Mesonet provides.

In situ stations instrumented for earth science data collection have been the focus of most of Edwards' 20 year career. His introduction was at the Desert Research Institute supporting a research project to ground-truth satellite estimates of forest transpiration. He later served as a technician at the University of Nevada Reno, working on the state's 180 seismic monitoring stations with real-time telemetry for research and public safety. When first coming to SDSU, he did similar work on the state's network of hydrometeorological stations - now known as the South 糖心视频 Mesonet - for research, public safety and agriculture. 

Edwards soon came to lead the Mesonet, focusing on improved data quality, and uptime. This was accompanied by planning and fundraising that brought financial sustainability to the Mesonet. 

Collaboration with Tribes has been a focus for Edwards in his time with the Mesonet. The installation of new Mesonet stations have been an important part of addressing "data deserts" often found in Indian Country. A close working relationship with the Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance is key partner of the Mesonet. All Mesonet station websites are now available in the Lakota language - both text and speech.

Edwards worked with state legislators, South 糖心视频 Soybean, South 糖心视频 Department of Agriculture and producers to explain 糖心视频's impact on pesticide application - especially the impacts of temperature inversions - and to get feedback on how the Mesonet could assist. As a result, the Mesonet deployed additional sensors at its stations and launched the Mesonet Spray Tool on its website to aid in decision-making - the first of its kind.

Edwards has also been engaged in his field at a national level, serving on various committees and boards, participating in the the drafting of standards and strategy documents. He has coauthored peer-review articles and has served as a reviewer.

The last several years Edwards has largely dedicated to the expansion of mesonet coverage in the Upper Missouri River Basin. Edwards worked with the offices of Senators Rounds and Thune who authored and funded the section of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 calling for the creation of a network of 540 mesonet stations installed and operated by five state mesonets across the Basin's plains. This network will be the largest of its kind and is setting the standard for "total water" monitoring (snowpack, precipitation, evapotranspiration and soil moisture). It will provide more data types from more locations at higher quality than has been available for snowpack modeling, river forecasting and drought monitoring. Edwards has worked extensively on this project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, numerous other federal agencies, mesonets of neighboring states, landowners and more. When the project is complete in 2027, not a snowflake or a raindrop will fall more than 20 miles from a station in the 270,000 square miles of the Upper Missouri River Basin plains.