Workshop Participants

Christian Rathke

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…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Paul Matthias Otto

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…
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology

Carolyn Enquist

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,…
United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Jane Baldwin

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.…
University of California, Irvine

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

Timothy Schneider

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…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

JT T. Reager

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…
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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)

Deb Gallagher

PROFILE Climate Change Director with more than 20 years’ shaping solutions, mentoring emerging leaders and leading teams to embed sustainability strategy into core operations across…
BSR (Business for Social Responsibility)

Dorothy Ngajilo

Dr. Dorothy Ngajilo is an Occupational Medicine Specialist working with the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Occupational and Workplace Health Programme. In this role, she…
World Health Organization (WHO)

Carisa Harris Adamson

Carisa Harris Adamson, PhD, CPE is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). She is the…
University of California, Berkeley

Bob Harrison 

Dr. Harrison is a Public Health Medical Officer with the California Department of Public Health Occupational Health Branch and Clinical Professor at the University of…
University of California, San Francisco

Oscar Melo

Oscar Melo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He holds a PhD and MSc in Agriculture…
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Sheryl Magzamen

Sheryl Magzamen is a professor in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at Colorado State University. As a respiratory epidemiologist with training in…
Colorado State University (CSU)

Andreas Flouris

Dr. Andreas Flouris is a Professor of Physiology at the University of Thessaly and a Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa. Specializing in the…
University of Thessaly

Roxana Chicas

Roxana Chicas, PhD, RN is an Assistant Professor, in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and AAN Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine.…
Emory University

Patrick Behrer

Patrick Behrer is an Economist in the Sustainability and Infrastructure team of the World Bank's Development Research Group. Behrer's work focuses on the economics of…
World Bank

Halshka Graczyk

Dr. Halshka Graczyk is a Researcher andTechnical Specialist on Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) at the United Nations’ specialized agency: The International Labour Organization (ILO)…
International Labour Organization (ILO)

Vidhya Venogupal

Certified Industrial Hygienist PhD in Env. Sciences Public Health Research Occupational Health
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research

June Spector

June Spector MD, MPH, is a Research Associate Professor in the University of Washington (UW) Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS), Adjunct in…
University of Washington

Margaret Morrissey-Basler

Dr. Margaret Morrissey-Basler is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Providence College and the Senior Advisor of Occupational Heat Safety Advisor at the Korey…
Providence College

Aubrey Miller

Dr. Miller is Deputy Director of the Office of Scientific Coordination Planning and Evaluation (SCOPE) within the Office of the Director for NIEHS. He leads…
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Kris Karnauskas 

Kris Karnauskas is a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and…
University of Colorado, Boulder

Brenda Jacklitsch

Brenda Jacklitsch, PhD, MS is a research health scientist and leads the cross-institute Climate and Work Workgroup at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and…
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

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