Workshop Participants

Fa Li

My research investigates ecosystem greenhouse gas cycling, wildfires, and nature-based solutions by combining data-driven approaches (e.g., physically interpretable AI and causality inference), process-based terrestrial biosphere/Earth…
Stanford University

JP O'Brien

John P. (JP) O’Brien is a Program Officer for the Science Program at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2024, he performed…
HSF

Tami Bond

Dr. Tami Bond is the Walter Scott, Jr. Presidential Chair in Energy, Environment and Health at Colorado State University, and a Professor in Mechanical Engineering.…
Colorado State University (CSU)

Karolina Safarzynska

Karolina Safarzynska is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw. Before joining the University of Warsaw, she earned…
University of Warsaw

Oreane Edelenbosch

Oreane Edelenbosch works at the Environmental Science Department of the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, focusing in particular on the contribution of energy efficiency and…
Utrecht University

Andrew Bell

Andrew Reid Bell is the inaugural Schleifer Family Professor of Sustainability in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. His work draws on agent-based…
Cornell University

Sibel Eker

Sibel Eker is a senior research scholar in the Sustainable Service Systems Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program. Her interdisciplinary research…
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Mariësse van Sluisveld

Mariësse van Sluisveld is a researcher at PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Trained as an environmental scientist, she has focused her career on linking decision-making…
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)

Evelina Trutnevyte

Evelina Trutnevyte is an associate professor and head of the Renewable Energy Systems group at the University of Geneva. Evelina is an energy systems analyst…
University of Geneva

Adam Wiechman

I am a Postdoctoral Research Asssociate in the Levin Lab and High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. I received my PhD in Sustainability at…
Princeton University

Charlie Wilson

Charlie is a Professor of Energy and Climate Change and Senior Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford. He…
Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

Christian Klassert

Dr. Christian Klassert is an environmental research economist and co-speaker of the Working Group Social-Science Water Research at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)…
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ

Kalai Ramea

Dr. Kalai Ramea is the Co-founder and CTO of Planette, where she leads the technical development of long-range climate forecasting products. She is an accomplished…
Planette AI

Ivan Savin

Ivan Savin is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Analytics at ESCP Business School, Madrid Campus. At ESCP, Ivan teaches courses on Advanced Statistics, Machine Learning,…
ESCP Business School

Sara Constantino

Sara Constantino is an assistant professor at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences and a visiting research scholar…
Stanford University

Narasimha Rao

Dr. Rao's research examines the relationship between energy systems, human wellbeing and climate change. His project Decent Living Energy quantifies the energy needs and climate…
Yale University

Wei Peng

Wei Peng is an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton…
Princeton University

Rob Lempert

Robert Lempert is a principal researcher at the RAND Corporation and director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the…
RAND

Brian Buma

Brian Buma is a Senior Climate Scientist and coordinates the Climate Innovation Initiative at the Environmental Defense Fund. He also coordinates the work around wetland…
Environmental Defense Fund

Qing Zhu

I am a Staff Scientist specializing in ecosystem biogeochemistry and the responses of ecosystems to environmental changes and disturbances, such as fires, extreme heat, and…
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

Jennifer Watts

Dr. Jennifer Watts' work focuses on greenhouse gas accounting and feedbacks between terrestrial ecosystems, climate change, and human land use/management, through multi-scale data integration and…
Woodwell Climate Research Center

Ruth Varner

Ruth Varner is a Professor of Biogeochemistry in the Department of Earth Sciences and the Interim Director of the the Institute for the Study of…
University of New Hampshire

Rodrigo Vargas

Rodrigo Vargas is a professor at the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU), where he leads an interdisciplinary research program focused on…
Arizona State University

Ted Schuur

Dr. Ted Schuur is a Regents’ Professor in the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University. He is an ecologist who has…
Northern Arizona University

Camilo Rey-Sanchez

My goal is to understand how different ecosystems are regulating atmospheric processes that are relevant for weather, climate, and air quality predictions. My focus is…
North Carolina State University

Shushi Peng

Shushi Peng is a full professor at the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University. His research interests include climate change and biogeochemistry.…
Peking University

Paul Palmer

Paul Palmer is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh. His research is focused on understanding the physical and chemical processes that drive variations in…
University of Edinburgh

Elsa Ordway 

Elsa is an interdisciplinary ecosystem ecologist, working at the intersection of field ecology, land system science, remote sensing, and modeling. She draws on a wide…
University of California, Los Angeles

Pat Megonigal

Dr. Patrick Megonigal is a Senior Scientist and Director of Research at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and holds a joint appointment at Pacific Northwest…
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Sparkle  Malone

Dr. Sparkle L. Malone obtained her PhD from the University of Alabama in 2014, where she studied the carbon fluxes in subtropical wetland ecosystems. She…
Yale University

Racine Ly

Dr. Racine Ly is a technology strategist and data systems professional with a strong focus on GeoAI (Geospatial Artificial Intelligence) and its transformative role across…
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McKenzie Kuhn

My research explores the consequences of climate change on boreal-Arctic ecosystems. My lab group works towards improving estimates of northern ecosystem greenhouse gas exchange and…
University of British Columbia

Eric Kort

Dr. Kort is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Prior to…
University of Michigan

Chris Konek

Chris joins the Global Methane Hub as Lead Scientist, bringing his experience forging deep and productive international scientific partnerships. For the last 12 years, he…
Global Methane Hub

Daniel Jacob

Daniel Jacob is the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Harvard University.…
Harvard University

Gustaf Hugelius

My main scientific interest is the role of soils in the global carbon cycle. I have particularly worked with quantifying and characterizing stocks of organic…
Stockholm University

Alison Hoyt

Alison Hoyt is an Assistant Professor of Earth System Science at Stanford, where she leads the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Group. Her work focuses on soil…
Stanford University

Mangaliso John Gondwe

Dr Mangaliso John Gondwe is a senior research scholar at the University of Botswana’s Okavango Research Institute located in Maun, at the southern end of…
University of Botswana

Eugenie Euskirchen

I am a professor of terrestrial ecology and global change modeling at the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a joint appointment between the Institute of…
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology

Philippe Ciais

Philippe Ciais is a senior researcher working at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement in France near Paris. He is an internationally recognized…
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement

Lori Bruhwiler

Dr. Lori Bruhwiler is a physical scientist at the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, Colorado. Her research interests include understanding atmospheric budgets of…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Kyle Arndt

I research climate change impacts on trace gas exchange from natural and managed ecosystems. My primary experience focuses on trace gas fluxes from Arctic and…
Woodwell Climate Research Center

Dhruv Patel-Tupper

Dr. Dhruv Patel-Tupper is AGCI’s Program Development Manager. In this role, Dhruv coordinates fundraising and end-to-end execution of AGCI’s longstanding interdisciplinary workshop series. Dhruv has…
Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI)

Anne van Valkengoed

Anne van Valkengoed is an assistant professor at Wageningen University & Research. Her research focuses on understanding climate action by improving psychological theorizing.
Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

Jim Yoon

Dr. Jim Yoon is a water security and resilience scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. His research focuses on the development and application of advanced…
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Linda Steg

Linda Steg (1965) is Professor of Environmental Psychology. She studied Adult Education at the University of Groningen and has worked at the Netherlands Institute for…
University of Groningen

Shonali Pachauri

Shonali Pachauri is research group leader of the Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group, in the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program at the International…
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz

Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz studies how microbes participate in an ecosystem and in applied processes. He and his research team are investigating whether microbe-mediated organismal and environmental…
Arizona State University

Rob Jackson

Rob Jackson and his lab examine the many ways people affect the Earth. They produce basic scientific knowledge and use it to help shape policies…
Stanford University

Danielle Potocek

Danie Potocek (née Monteverde) is a biogeochemist at Spark Climate Solutions, where she focuses on understanding greenhouse gas feedbacks from natural systems such as wetlands…
Spark Climate Solutions