Workshop Participants

Council on the Uncertain Human Future
Arizona State University

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…
The Pew Charitable Trusts

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…
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)

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…
Bell Adapt Ltd
San Diego Gas & Electric

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…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

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…
University of Florence

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…
Centro euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)

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…
University of California, Irvine

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…
National Environmental Research Council
For the Forest

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,…
Regis University

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…
McGill University

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…
Stanford University
University of Leeds
University of California, Los Angeles

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…
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bermudez Arquitectos

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…
Science and Policy Associates, Inc.
United States Geological Survey (USGS)

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…
Arizona State University

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…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Development Alternatives

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…
University of Lausanne (UNIL)

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…
Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Syracuse University
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

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…
King County, Washington

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…
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Liverpool School

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…
Bangladesh Water Development Board
University of Washington
Office of Senator Ken Salazar
University of Exeter

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…
Southern California Edison
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
University of Maryland
Blonk Consultants
École des Ponts ParisTech
University of Washington
City of Virginia Beach

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…
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis

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…
New Zealand Climate Change Commission
University Heights Science Park
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Argonne National Laboratory

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…
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

John Bolduc

I have worked for 35 years with municipalities in sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and conservation.
City of Cambridge