Workshop Participants

Julie Miller

In my current role as a research associate at IGSD, I translate the science of super pollutants, and the risks they pose to the climate…
Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development

Emma Lathrop

I am interested in quantifying the magnitude and mechanisms of soil carbon loss following permafrost thaw, which has global ramifications. A changing Arctic impacts everyone…
Northern Arizona University

Beiyao Xu

I am a researcher interested in how climate change, air pollution, and carbon neutrality affect the Earth system and food production. I am currently a…
University of Munich (LMU), Germany

Garry Hayman

Dr Garry Hayman is a land surface and Earth system modeller at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). His research interests cover land-atmosphere…
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Angela Gallego Sala

I am a biogeochemist with expertise in climatic regulation of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. My particular area of expertise is peatlands and I have…
University of Exeter

Linnia Hawkins

Linnia Hawkins is an Associate Research Scientist at the NSF Science and Technology Center Learning the Earth with AI and Physics (LEAP) at Columbia University…
Columbia University

Julien Alleon

Research scientist specialized in modelling land surfaces and there interactions with the atmosphere. I have focused my PhD on the representation of forest microclimate and…
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement

Susan (Shufen) Pan

Dr. Susan Pan is an environmental scientist and principal investigator of the GeoAI Lab, where she leads interdisciplinary research at the intersection of environmental systems,…
Boston College

Hanqin Tian

Hanqin Tian is Institute Professor of Global Sustainability and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston College. He serves as the Inaugural Director of…
Boston College

Andreas Krause

I am a vegetation modeller studying ecosystem responses to climate and land-use change. My research focuses on vegetation dynamics, disturbance processes, land-based climate mitigation, and…
Technical University of Munich

Daniel Hooke

I am interested in reduced complexity models of the earth system, and applying these to mitigation scenarios.
Met Office Hadley Centre

Alexander Winkler

Alexander Winkler is an independent research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, where he leads the "Atmosphere-Biosphere-Coupling, Climate and Causality" group, and…
Max Planck Insitut für Biogeochemie

Rebecca Varney

Rebecca Varney (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on land carbon cycle feedbacks under climate change, with a specific focus…
Stockholm University

Shuo Chen

Shuo Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, advised by Prof. Qianlai Zhuang. Her research…
Purdue University

Yi Xi

Yi Xi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), France. Her research focuses on high-latitude ecosystems, permafrost…
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement

Christina Schaedel

I am a permafrost researcher who uses experimental data to improve how permafrost dynamics are represented in Earth system models and carbon budgets. I focus…
Woodwell Climate Research Center

Paul Lerner

Dr. Paul Lerner is an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University and at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He has expertise in the…
Columbia University

Hyuna Kim

I started a postdoctoral position in September 2025, co-hosted by the GECO group at GIUB (Benjamin Stocker) and the Biogeochemical Modeling Group at KUP (Frerk…
University of Bern

Elchin Jafarov

Elchin Jafarov is a Senior Research Scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center, where he leads the Arctic Modeling Team. His research focuses on permafrost dynamics,…
Woodwell Climate Research Center

Thomas Gasser

Thomas Gasser is a Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), where he leads the Earth System Modeling research theme.…
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Laura Eifler

I completed a Bachelor’s degree in Geography, followed by a Master’s in Earth System Data Science and Remote Sensing at Leipzig University. I received my…
Leipzig University

Eleanor Burke

I am a permafrost scientist interested in carbon and water cycling in the northern high latitudes.
Met Office Hadley Centre

Shania Brace

Shania L. Brace is an environmental scientist currently interning with the Warming-Induced Emissions program at Spark Climate Solutions, and an incoming M.Sc. student in Planetary…
Spark Climate Solutions

Joe Clarke

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate and climate scientist at the University of Exeter, where I also completed my PhD. My research focuses on Earth…
University of Exeter

Anastasia Romanou

I studied physics and earned a PhD in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and Physical Oceanography. I have been a reasearch scientist at NASA-GISS and an adjunct…
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)

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

Will Wieder

Will leads land model development for the Community Land Model (CLM) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He is a soil biogeochemist and Earth…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Juliette Bernard

During my PhD at the Paris Observatory and the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), I used remote sensing data to map…
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