Workshop Participants

Angela Jean Rigden

Angela Rigden is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her work explores interactions between the…
University of California, Irvine

Martin De Kauwe

Martin De Kauwe is an Associate Professor of Global Change Ecology at the University of Bristol. Martin is the Co-Lead of the Cabot Institute for…
University of Bristol

Arianna Varuolo-Clarke

Arianna is a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow working under the mentorship of Jennifer Kay at the University of Colorado Boulder. I earned…
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

Frances Davenport

Frances Davenport is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. She studies impacts of global climate change, particularly related to…
Colorado State University (CSU)

Park Williams

Professor in UCLA's Department of Geography since 2021. Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University 2013–2021. Research has broadly focused on the…
University of California, Los Angeles

James Randerson

James Randerson studies the global carbon cycle and ecosystem responses to climate change. He is recognized for advancing our understanding of the role of fires…
University of California, Irvine

Zhenzhong Zeng

Zeng Zhenzhong primarily conducts research in the field of Earth system processes and global change. His work focuses on utilizing ground observation networks, satellite remote…
Southern University of Science and Technology

Adam Atchley

Dr. Adam Atchley is a hydrologist with broad expertise in coupled systems i.e. the interplay between wildland fire, hydrology, land surface energy balances, and ecosystem…
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Anna Ukkola

My research focuses on understanding the effects of climate change, human activities and increasing atmospheric CO2 on vegetation and water resources. In particular, I’m interested…
University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)

Anna Trugman

Anna Trugman is an ecologist with a multidisciplinary background in the earth sciences. Her research interests are centered around understanding the Earth system consequences of…
University of California, Santa Barbara

Abigail Swann

Abigail Swann is a Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science and the Department of Biology at the University of Washington…
University of Washington

Benjamin Stocker

I am a climate scientist by training and have a broad interest ranging across disciplines, including ecosystem science, ecophysiology, remote sensing, and earth system modelling.…
University of Bern

Bin Peng

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor leading the Water, Agriculture, and Conservation Innovation (WACI) Lab at Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).…
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Yanlan Liu

I am an ecohydrologist interested in how plant-water-climate interactions shape current and future ecosystem dynamics. I received a Ph.D. degree in Environment and an M.S.…
Ohio State University

Alexandra Konings

Alexandra 'Alex' Konings is an associate professor in the Department of Earth System Science (and, by courtesy, in the Department of Geophysics) at Stanford University.…
Stanford University

Alan Knapp

Alan K. Knapp is a University Distinguished Professor in the Biology Department and the Senior Ecologist for the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado…
Colorado State University (CSU)

Simone Fatichi

Simone Fatichi received his BSc (cum laude) and MSc (cum laude) in Earth and Environmental Engineering at the University of Firenze (Italy). In 2010, he…
National University of Singapore

Ying Fan

I study global water cycle and biogeochemical cycles mediated by vegetation.
Rutgers University

David Benson

I am a program analyst at NOAA’s Climate Program Office with the Modeling, Analysis, Prediction and Projections (MAPP) program. I hold a PhD in climate…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

William Anderegg

Dr. William Anderegg is the director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy and a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at…
University of Utah

Matthew Morrissette

Matthew Morrissette is the Director of Technology at Wildlife Protection Solutions, where they lead the development and implementation of cutting-edge AI solutions for wildlife conservation.…
Wildlife Protection Solutions

Randall Jimenez

Randall Jimenez is a conservation scientist at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He works on implementing science team projects by developing metrics…
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Wildlife Conservation Society

Peter Leimgruber

Peter Leimgruber is the Director of Conservation and Science at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI). He is responsible for planning, directing…
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

Ben Weinstein

I am a research scientist at the University of Florida. I develop automated tools for ecological monitoring to support research and conservation using machine learning…
University of Florida

Laura Pollock

Laura is an Assistant Professor in Biology at McGill University in Montréal, was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, and has a PhD from the Quantitative and…
McGill University

Katharina Dittmar

Currently Acting Deputy Division Director for the Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) in the Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Joined NSF…
National Science Foundation (NSF)

Alcione Silva

Founder of Connecting Food, a social impact foodtech that works on the intelligent management of surplus food donations. Food Engineer, Master in Sustainability from Fundação…
Connecting Food Brazil
Agronometrics

Miranda Dally

Miranda Dally, DrPH is a researcher at the Colorado School of Public Health’s Center for Health, Work & Environment and Department of Environmental and Occupational…
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
U.S. Department of State

Suzanne Stluka

Dr. Suzanne Stluka is the Deputy Director for the Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute…
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Scott Loarie

Scott is the Executive Director of iNaturalist. Scott has BS & MS degrees in biology from Stanford and a PhD in environmental science from Duke.…
inaturalist

Emmanuel Dufourq

Emmanuel Dufourq leads the Machine Learning for Ecology Research Group at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences South Africa (AIMS) and is a senior lecturer…
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Thomas Dabolt

Thomas (Tod) Dabolt is the distinguished Chief Data Officer and Geospatial Information Officer at the U.S. Department of the Interior. With a commendable 27 years…
United States Department of the Interior (DOI)

Oisin Mac Aodha

Oisin Mac Aodha is a Lecturer in Machine Learning in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Turing Fellow…
University of Edinburgh

Maria Siqueira

Director of public policies and projects, Maria has a degree in International Relations, with extension at the Université de Strasbourg, and postgraduate degree in Food…
Pacto Contra a Fome (PCF)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Kohei Watanabe

Kohei Watanabe is professor at Teikyo University (Tokyo, Japan) and research associate at the Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre, University of Cambridge (U.K.). He obtained his…
Teikyo University

Jocelyn Boiteau

Jocelyn Boiteau is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition. She earned her PhD in international nutrition in 2021 from Cornell…
Cornell University

Justin Mankin

Justin is an associate professor of geography at Dartmouth and PI of Dartmouth’s Climate Modeling & Impacts Group. He also holds courtesy appointments in the…
Dartmouth College

Xiangtao Xu

I am an ecosystem ecologist with broad interests in other related fields of ecology and Earth System Science. My research revolves around the role of…
Cornell University

Marconi Campos Cerqueira Junior

Dr. Marconi Campos is the chief scientist of WildMon, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing globally accessible technology solutions to accelerate data-driven biodiversity and ecosystem…
WildMon

David Thau

Dave Thau is WWF's Global Data and Technology Lead Scientist. He joined WWF in 2019, bringing with him over 30 years of software development experience.…
World Wildlife Fund

Lily Xu

Lily Xu is a postdoc at the University of Oxford with the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and incoming assistant professor at Columbia University. Her…
University of Oxford

Stephanie O'Donnell

Stephanie O’Donnell joined Fauna & Flora in 2015 to establish and lead the WILDLABS Programme. Launched as a collaboration of four of the world’s leading…
Wildlabs

Tanya Berger-Wolf

Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf is a Professor of Computer Science Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State University,…
Ohio State University

Drew Purves

Drew Purves is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. There, he is co-leading a new sustainability program, the goal of which is to leverage AI…
Google

Jacob Levenson

Accomplished Senior Marine Biologist with 20 years of success providing strategic leadership and operational oversight for science and innovation programs, strategic partnerships with public aquariums…
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Juan Sebastián Ulloa

I am currently a Scientific Researcher at the Center for Socio-Ecological Studies and Global Change of the Humboldt Institute in Colombia. With a Master's degree…
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt