Workshop Participants
Steve Shafer
"Dr. Shafer serves as Associate Administrator for National Programs in the USDA Agricultural Research Service. In this position, he is the senior leader and manager…
Richard Birdsey
Dr. Birdsey received a Ph.D. degree in quantitative methods from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He has a…
Steven McNulty
McNulty studies how global warming will impact southern US forests, and he develops management tools for foresters to use in mitigating some of the negative…
Jim Prairie
Dr. Prairie is a Hydraulic Engineer with the Upper Colorado Region of the Bureau of Reclamation. He has been working with Reclamation the past 9…
Rebecca Smith
Dr. Rebecca Smith is an engineer with the Lower Colorado Basin Region of Reclamation and a member of the Modeling and Research Team stationed at…
Carly Jerla
Carly Jerla is an engineer with the Lower Colorado Region of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). Her work entails conducting studies using water operations models…
Igor Linkov
Dr. Igor Linkov is the Risk and Decision Science Focus Area Lead with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center. He is an Adjunct…
Kate White
Dr. Kate White is a registered professional engineer with over 20 years experience in the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Kate holds B.S. and…
Chris Frans
Chris is a civil engineer / hydrologist working for the Seattle District of the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). He has over 10 years of…
Ahmed Kablan
Dr. Kablan leads the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security efforts on Food loss and waste, food safety and nutrition research. Dr. Kablan is a…
John Furlow
John Furlow is a Climate Change Specialist currently on secondment to the US Department of State from USAID, working on the NAP Global Network. Prior…
Nay Htun
Nay Htun is Professor and Executive Director for Asia Pacific at the University for Peace, New York Office. UPEACE was established by a United Nations…
Juan Declet
Dr. Declet-Barreto earned a Ph.D. in environmental social sciences, M.A. and B.S. degrees in geography, and an associate’s degree in geographic information systems, from Arizona…
Kristina Dahl
Kristina Dahl is a senior climate scientist for the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. In her role, she designs, executes,…
Robert G. Watts
Robert G. (Bob) Watts is the Cornelia and Arthur L. Jung Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tulane University. He enrolled at Tulane University 1955 intending…
Taj Schottland
Taj Schottland is the Senior Program Manager on The Trust for Public Land's national climate team. He has over 10 years of professional experience working…
Edith de Guzman
Edith de Guzman is Director of Research at TreePeople, where she investigates best practices for the sustainable transformation of the Greater Los Angeles region through…
Ralph Torrie
Ralph Torrie is the President of Torrie Smith Associates and an internationally recognized expert in the field of energy and sustainable development. The methods and…
Melvin Lippe
I call myself a land system scientist with a research interest at the interface of physical and human-environment geography and landscape ecology for understanding the…
