Workshop Participants

Curmira Gulston

Ms. Curmira Gulston is a Disaster Risk Management Specialist with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), where she supports the design and implementation of…
Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency

A.R. Siders

A.R. Siders is director of the Mangone Climate Change Science and Policy Hub and an associate professor in disaster science, public policy, and geography at…
University of Delaware
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Juliette Bernard

Postdoctoral Researcher specialising in modelling tropical peatland methane emissions at the University of Exeter.
University of Exeter

Tom Colligan

Tom Colligan serves as the Platform Engineer for the Warming-Induced Emissions Model Intercomparison Project (WIE-MIP) at Spark, where he is responsible for designing and deploying…
Spark Climate Solutions

Jennifer Brady

Jennifer Brady leads Climate Central's data-driven investigations into climate trends and impacts. Brady's expertise lies in analyzing and interpreting complex data sets to provide insights…
Climate Central

Ben Preston

Benjamin Preston is a senior policy researcher at RAND and director of the RAND Center for Climate and Energy Futures. He is also a professor…
RAND

Mayra Cruz

Mayra is a PhD Candidate and Abess Fellow at the University of Miami in the Environmental Science and Policy program. She holds an MPH in…
University of Miami

Isaac Ngere

Physician-epidemiologist with over 15 years of experience in infectious disease research, public health programme management, and health systems strengthening across Kenya and the East, Central,…
Washington State University

Nicole Herman-Mercer

Nicole is a Research Social Scientist with the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. Nicole is trained in environmental anthropology and uses a political ecology theoretical…
United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Kelsey Doerksen

Kelsey Doerksen is a postdoctoral researcher in geospatial AI, holding a joint appointment with Arizona State University in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence…
University of Cape Town

Gianluca Pescaroli

Gianluca Pescaroli is Professor in Operational Continuity and Resilience at University College London (UCL), and Senior Risk Advisor at the Centre for Risk Studies, Cambridge…
University College London

James Elliott

James (Jim) Elliott earned his Ph.D. in Sociology (with a minor in Geography) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He then trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow…
Rice University

Jennifer Helgeson

Dr. Jennifer Helgeson is a research economist in the Applied Economics Office of the Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology…
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Marccus Hendricks

Marccus D. Hendricks is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Environmental Planning and Director of the Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience and Justice (SIRJ) Lab at…
University of Maryland

Katherine Rowden

Katherine is the Silver Jackets National Program Manager – a program that promotes interagency flood and hazard risk reduction efforts at the local and regional…
United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

Andrew Rumbach

Andrew Rumbach is a senior fellow in the Housing and Communities Division at the Urban Institute, where he coleads the Climate and Communities practice area.…
The Urban Institute

Joyce Kimutai

Dr. Joyce Kimutai is a Climate Scientist at World Weather Attribution Consortium at Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London and Kenya Meteorological Services. She…
Imperial College London

Penny Liao

Yanjun (Penny) Liao is an economist and fellow at Resources for the Future. Her research primarily focuses on issues of natural disaster risk management and…
Resources for the Future

Edmund Ilimoan Yamba

Dr. Edmund Ilimoan Yamba is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at the Kwame Nkrumah University of…
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Fahad Saeed

Dr. Fahad Saeed is a climate scientist with over two decades of exceptional career trajectory, encompassing scientific prowess, diplomatic engagement, and passionate activism. Dr. Saeed…
Climate Analytics

Jack Eggleston

Jack Eggleston leads hydrologic remote sensing science and R&D efforts for the USGS Water Mission Area. His education includes a PhD in Civil and Environmental…
United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Craig Ferguson

Retired academic. New program manager for NASA Earth Science Division.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

John Bolten

John is serving as the Chief of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Hydrologic Sciences Laboratory. His research focuses on the application of satellite-based remote…
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Carrie Vuyovich

Conducts research on seasonal, terrestrial snow to understand its impact on Earth's hydrological and land-atmosphere interaction processes.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Bridget Seegers

Dr. Seegers is a NASA lead on the Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN) project with the goal to validate a cyanobacteria algorithm for US inland waters.…
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Paola Passalacqua

Paola Passalacqua is Professor of Hydrology and River System Science at ETH Zürich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. Prior to…
ETH Zurich

Joshua Fisher

Dr. Joshua B. Fisher is a Climate Scientist focusing on terrestrial ecosystems, water, carbon, and nutrient cycling using a combination of remote sensing, supercomputer models,…
Chapman University

Stephanie Granger

Stephanie Granger works at the intersection of science, remote sensing, and water management, helping connect NASA Earth observations with real-world water challenges and decision-making needs.…
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Christa Peters-Lidard

As Director of the Sciences and Exploration Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, I led the largest collection of Earth and Space scientists in…
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Steven Greb

Steven Greb is a research scientist and honorary fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering in Madison, WI, USA. Steven Greb recently…
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Wade Crow

Dr. Wade T. Crow is a Research Physical Scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture's Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland. His…
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Cedric David

Dr. Cédric H. David received the Diplôme d’Ingénieur from École Centrale de Lille, Lille, France, in 2004, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering…
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Augusto Getirana

(https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci/bio/augusto.getirana) Dr. Getirana is a Research Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory. Dr. Getirana’s research involves the development, improvement…
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Peter van Oevelen

Petrus (Peter) J. van Oevelen was born in The Netherlands, a country where both the struggles with water as well as the benefits of water…
George Mason University

Jay Famiglietti

Jay Famiglietti is a hydrologist and Global Futures Professor at Arizona State University where he is Director of Science for the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative.…
Arizona State University

Anna Casey

Anna Casey (she/her) is AGCI’s Senior Manager, Project Operations, where she leads the development of systems, tools, and approaches that strengthen project implementation and operational…
Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI)

Sujay Kumar

Dr. Sujay V. Kumar is a research physical scientist and the Assistant Lab Chief of NASA's Hydrological Sciences Laboratory. He earned his Doctorate and Masters…
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Oronde Drakes

Oronde’s research interrogates the intersections among natural hazards and society, focusing on social vulnerability in multiple hazard contexts, and its implications for disproportionate hazard exposure,…
United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Colin Raymond

I am currently an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. My research centers on better understanding how weather systems interact with…
University of California, Los Angeles

Deepti Singh

Deepti is an associate professor in the School of the Environment at Washington State University (WSU) where she leads the Climate Extremes and Impacts Lab.…
Washington State University

Ryan Thombs

Ryan Thombs is an assistant professor of rural sociology at Penn State University. His research focuses on the political economy of the climate crisis, its…
Pennsylvania State University

Ari Raphael Ball-Burack

Ari Ball-Burack is a third year PhD student in the Energy & Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Dr. Dan Kammen.…
University of California, Berkeley

Vivek Srikrishnan

Vivek Srikrishnan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological & Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He researches climate risk management, with a particular…
Cornell University

Kaitlyn Spangler

My scholarship and praxis are anchored in working toward more sustainable, agrobiodiverse landscapes and, therein, more just communities. I aim to disentangle the inequities of…
Pennsylvania State University

Le Bienfaiteur Sagang

Le Bienfaiteur Sagang (Ph.D.) leverages his scientific and technical expertise to support local governments and institutions in protecting and managing their natural ecosystems in ways…
CTREES

Vítor V. Vasconcelos

In this era of Complexity, I develop new models of human collective behavior to anticipate the intended and unintended consequences of interventions on complex social…
University of Amsterdam

Meredith Holgerson

Meredith Holgerson is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Her research team broadly studies aquatic ecosystem ecology, with a dominant…
Cornell University

Reem Hannun

Dr. Reem Hannun is an experimental atmospheric chemist within the Atmospheric Science Branch at NASA Ames. Her work broadly focuses on using measurement-based approaches to…
NASA Ames Research Center