Workshop Participants

Andhra University

Beth Gibbons

As ASAP's mission-driven leader, Beth strengthens ASAP as an emerging nonprofit organization. Beth nurtures relationships -including relationships with the ASAP Board of Directors and funders…
American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP)

Sascha Petersen

Sascha currently plays a key role in ISC’s urban resilience work managing the American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP). ASAP is focused on building climate…
American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP)

Ann Dillemuth

Ann Dillemuth, AICP, joined the American Planning Association in 2007 as a Research Associate with the Planning Advisory Service (PAS). She edits the PAS Reports…
American Planning Association

Raj Pandya

In January 2024, Raj Pandya joined Arizona State University as the Fulton Presidential Professor of Practice in Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and Executive Director…
Arizona State University
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE)

Richard Kerr

Richard A. Kerr has covered the Earth and planetary sciences (and a bit of paleontology) since 1977 at Science. He went there from the University…
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Doug Parsons

Doug Parsons is the Director of America Adapts Media and host of America Adapts – The Climate Change Podcast. Doug first started in the adaptation…
America Adapts Media

John Matthews

John H. Matthews is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (http://alliance4water.org). Since 2003, he has integrated technical and policy…
Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Bill Gunter

Dr. Gunter's long-standing reputation for his work in carbon capture and storage has attracted excellent researchers to ARC, and has consistently enabled ARC to work…
Alberta Research Council
Agency of International Development
African Development Bank

Charles E. Kolb

Charles Kolb is the president and chief executive officer of Aerodyne Research, Inc.; he joined Aerodyne as a Senior Research Scientist in 1971. At Aerodyne,…
Aerodyne Research Inc.

Dale Sands

"Dale Sands is AECOM Senior Vice President, Global Director Climate Adaptation Services, Environment, a $20 billion global provider of professional technical and management support services…
AECOM Environment
Advanced Resources International, Inc.
ACRE Africa
Academie Internationale de l'Environnement
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS

Joy Shumake-Guillemot

Joy Shumake-Guillemot leads the WHO/WMO Climate and Health Joint Office in Geneva Switzerland. She is an environmental health scientist and public health practitioner who has…
World Health Organization (WHO)

Mark Svoboda

Mark Svoboda is the Director of the National Drought Mitigation Center and a professor in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.…
National Drought Mitigation Center

Kripa Jagannathan

Kripa’s interests are in the field of climate change adaptation and climate-resilient planning. Her recent research focuses on improving the ‘usability’ of climate science, and…
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

Julian Ramirez-Villegas

Julian Ramirez-Villegas gained a PhD on climate change impacts and adaptation in the School of Earth and Environment at University of Leeds in early 2014.…
CIAT
Disaster Research Center

Danica Lombardozzi

Danica Lombardozzi is a global change ecologist who works in NCAR’s Climate and Global Dynamics laboratory. Her work uses a combination of ecological observations and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Sassan Saatchi

My present research interests include the global carbon cycle, in particular the forest biomass/carbon dynamics, land use and land cover change, forest structure and regeneration,…
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Veronika Eyring

Veronika Eyring received her PhD in Environmental Physics from the University of Bremen (Germany) in 1999. She joined the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in 2000…
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) German Aerospace Center

Pavel Groisman

Pavel Ya. Groisman is a UCAR Project Scientist at the NOAA/NESDIS National Climatic Data Center. During the past three years he has been a Northern…
National Climatic Data Center

Simon Lewis

Simon L. Lewis is Professor of Global Change Science at the University of Leeds and University College London. A plant ecologist by training (Ph.D. Cambridge University)…
University of Leeds
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Leonard Gaydos

Leonard J. Gaydos is a geographer with the U.S. Geological Survey where he leads research teams exploring innovative uses of geographic information systems and remote…
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

John Schmidt

Schmidt has more than 32 years of experience in technical management, including more than 24 years organizing and managing the design phase of large fusion…
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Gregg Marland

Gregg is a researcher in the Carbon-Climate Simulation Science Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee in the United States and a senior…
Appalachian State University

William Hooke

William H. Hooke is a Senior Policy Fellow and the Director of the Policy Program with The U.S. Climate Change Science Program. He has been…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Richard Crichton

I am an Individual Contractor for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR); and a Visiting Researcher at The University of Tokyo's Graduate…
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Michael Dettinger

Dr. Michael Dettinger is a research hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Western Regional Research, and a research associate of the Climate, Atmospheric…
University of California, San Diego

Lynn Russell

Lynn M. Russell is a Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her research interests are in aerosol evolution composition, and dynamics in…
University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego

Lynne Talley

Lynne Talley, a professor and research oceanographer with the Physical Oceanography Research Division, came to Scripps with expertise in mathematics, physics, and piano. "I was very…
University of California, San Diego

Jeff Severinghaus

Dr. Jeff Severinghaus is a professor of geosciences in the Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. His current…
University of California, San Diego