Workshop Participants



Angela Bednarek
Angela Bednarek is a director at The Pew Charitable Trusts in the environmental science division. She oversees the group’s efforts to connect science, policy, and…

David Behar
David Behar is Climate Program Director at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission with a focus on adaptation practice, science translation, and collaboration building. The…

Rob Bell
Rob Bell has 40 years’ experience in coastal engineering, risk from coastal hazards, the impacts of climate change on coastal communities and infrastructure and adaptive…

Nancy Beller-Simms
Nancy Beller-Simms is the Program Manager for the NOAA Climate Program Office, Sector Applications Research Program, Water Sector. It is an interdisciplinary grants program that…

Emanuele Bellini
Dr. Emanuele Bellini Ph.D. is a researcher and project manager at UNIFI: MS Degree in Communication Science cum laude at University of Siena. Doctorate in…

Alessio Bellucci
Alessio Bellucci got a PhD in physical oceanography at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS, UK) and is currently working at the Centro EuroMediterraneo per…

Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford has published over twenty books, mostly novels. Nearly all remain in print, some after a quarter of a century. His fiction has won…

Lennart Bengtsson
Lennart Bengtsson is a meteorologist currently interested in global climate modelling, global water vapour distribution and measurement of atmospheric water using GPS.He was Head of…

Stephen Bennett
Steve Bennett is a Professor in the Masters of Arts in Counseling Program at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. He teaches courses in Counseling Techniques,…
Elena Bennett
Dr. Bennett is an Assistant Professor in the School of the Environment and the Department Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She…

Sally M. Benson
Sally M. Benson joined Stanford University in 2007. She holds three appointments at Stanford: professor of energy resources engineering in the School of Earth, Energy…

Philip Berke
Berke’s research centers on community resilience to hazards and climate change with a focus on theory, methods and metrics of community planning and implementation. He…
Chris Bernabo
For over 25 years, Chris' professional mission has been linking science to the needs of decision makers in government, industry, NGO's and international organizations. He…

Michael Bernstein
Michael J. Bernstein is a postdoctoral scholar at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University (ASU). He studies ways…

Gene D. Berry
Gene Berry has been at LLNL since 1992 as a member of the Energy Technology and Security Program. His research interests are in energy technology…

Tom Beucler
Tom Beucler is an assistant professor of environmental data science at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He recently started a lab specifically dedicated to…

Jose Beya
I migrated back to New Zealand in 2018 to work as a Principal Engineer for the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council. My main function at the…

Lara Whitely Binder
Lara Whitely Binder is the Climate Preparedness Program Manager for King County, Washington. In this role, Lara is responsible for working with King County agencies…

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…

Annie Bissett
Annie has been a commercial illustrator since 1986, mostly based in Massachusetts with a brief 3-year stint living in Taos, New Mexico. She was an…
Martin Blagaich
I am Sr. Advisor at Southern California Edison specializing in climate vulnerability assessments. I have experience in long term reliability planning, climate mitigation, hydro asset…

George Boer
John's George Boer is a highly respected figure both nationally and internationally in the development and application of global climate models.Most outstandingly, George has contributed…

Matthew de Boer
I'm focussed on helping promote and develop climate change solutions that cut across the intersections between emissions reductions, carbon removals and adaptation to climate risks…

Linette Boisvert
Dr. Linette Boisvert received her PhD from the University of Maryland in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in 2013. Her PhD work involved estimating the moisture…

John Bolduc
I have worked for 35 years with municipalities in sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and conservation.