Workshop Participants

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I am an Arctic climate scientist whose focus on permafrost thaw is motivated by an acute awareness of the risks it poses. I have worked…

Anastasia Christman has been a Senior Policy Analyst with the National Employment Project (NELP) since 2011, supporting workers in industries as varied as banking, airport…

Dorah Labatte, MPH (She/her/hers) is a 3rd year student in the Doctor of Public Health program at the Dept of Epidemiology. Originally from Queens, NY,…

Marcela Tamayo-Ortiz, is an environmental and occupational epidemiologist interested in the maternal-child health effects of environmental, occupational and psychosocial exposures. She is part of the…

Dr. Real is a highly accomplished professional in the field of occupational health, holding a degree in Medicine from the University of Guadalajara (U. de…

Robin Cooper, MD is a private practice psychiatrist in San Francisco, California where she has treated patients for 40 years. She is Associate Clinical Professor…

Mike Langston’s career includes both the natural and social sciences. He has a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology from Oklahoma State University, an M.S. in Ecology…

CAPT Christian Rathke DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA was commissioned in December of 2011 in the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) after seven years in the…

With an engineering degree and now retired from over 30 years experience teaching/lecturing tertiary students in the ICT field where I have taught in numerous…

For over two decades, Carolyn has worked at the nexus of science and practice with positions at the National Wildlife Federation, the National Park Service,…

Dr. Baldwin is broadly interested in how large-scale atmospheric dynamics influence regional climate and climatic extremes, with an eye to climate change and policy applications.…

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…

Tim Schneider joined the NSF NCAR Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) in 2019 in the capacity of Senior Program Manager and Business Developer. Tim is motivated…

J.T. Reager is an Earth scientist in the Water and Ecosystems Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he studies global freshwater dynamics and hydrologic…

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…

Arianna is a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow working under the mentorship of Jennifer Kay at the University of Colorado Boulder. I earned…