Workshop Participants

Marina Alberti

Marina Alberti is Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. She completed her…
University of Washington

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

Arlie Adkins

Arlie Adkins is an associate professor with appointments in CAPLA's School of Landscape Architecture and Planning and the Health Promotion Sciences Department within the Mel…
University of Arizona
Torres Strait Regional Authority

Katherine Hagemann

Katherine Hagemann is the Resilience Program Manager for Adaptation within the Office of Resilience at Miami-Dade County. Her work focuses primarily on climate change and…
Miami-Dade County

Colleen Mercer Clarke

Dr. Mercer Clarke is an interdisciplinary scientist and professional landscape architect specializing in advancing resilience and encouraging transformation through the delivery of useful science on…
International Federation of Landscape Architects
HHNK (regional water authority)

Gordon Smith

Gordon has over 30 years of experience. Gordon has worked throughout eastern Canada, in Botswana, and in Valdez Alaska. As the Director of Planning with…
Government of Nova Scotia

Ricardo da Cruz e Sousa

I'm a landscape architect, currently finishing my PhD in urbanism at PROURB/UFRJ. For the last 10 years, my work as a consultant and researcher, has…
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Jacquie Stone

Jacquie Stone is currently the Director, Policy and Projects at the Department of Planning Lands and Heritage, having been in the position for 4 years,…
Department of Planning Lands and Heritage
City of Virginia Beach

Marissa Aho

Marissa Aho, AICP, has served as Houston’s Chief Resilience Officer for Mayor Sylvester Turner since February 2019. In this role she leads the resilience-building efforts…
City of Houston

Rasha Sayed Mahmoud

Rasha Sayed is a professor in Architecture Engineering and Landscape Architecture. Currently works as Lecturer in Birmingham city university – School of Art &Design, Landscape…
Birmingham City University
University of California, Los Angeles
Texas A&M University
National Science Foundation (NSF)

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

Erin Derrington

Erin Derrington is an environmental science and policy specialist who focuses on natural resource management planning and project implementation. Leveraging her background in environmental law…
EcoMD Services / CNMI-OPD / Maui County Planning

Diana Worthy

I have over 17 years experience working in local government in New Zealand and Scotland. I am a Senior Policy Planner at Tasman District Council,…
Tasman District Council
Province of Prince Edward Island

Lamin Komma

Ocean Sustainability, Governance, and Management
National Environment Agency

Quirijn Lodder

Quirijn Lodder is principal advisor Coastal Flood Risk management at Rijkswaterstaat, which is part of the ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. His role is…
Ministry of Infrastructure an Water Management

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
Dublin City Council
City of Copenhagen
San Diego Gas & Electric
National Institute of Public Health
Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation

Julie Arrighi

Julie Arrighi holds a joint position between the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and the Global Disaster Preparedness Center of the American Red Cross.…
Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

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
University of Leeds

Christopher Achen

Chris Achen's research interest is Political Methodology, particularly in its application to empirical democratic theory, American Politics, and International Relations. He is the author of…
Princeton University
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands

William L. Ascher

William Ascher is Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College (since 2000), where he also serves as Vice President and Dean of the…
Claremont McKenna College
Center for International Development and Conflict Management
University of Colorado, Denver
Khon Kaen University
University of Colorado, Boulder

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

Ghassem R Asrar

Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar is the Director of Joint Global Change Research Institute of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory located at the University of Maryland,…
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Adeleen Cloete

Professional Background: First degree in Oceanography, currently pursuing an MBA degree (final year). Employer: Environmental Officer in Coastal Management working for South African Government
South African Government
Rudjer Boskovic Institute
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Murray Townsend

Murray Townsend Ph.D., MIEAust, GAICD, FGLF. I manage the Coast and Marine Branch within the SA Department for Environment and Water. The team provides advice…
Department for Environment and Water

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)

Ahmed Hassan

I hold a Ph.D. in physical geography and geomatics from Ain Shams University in Egypt. I work as a teacher of physical geography and geographic…
Matrouh University
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Roger G. Barry

Roger G. Barry, Ph.D., University of Southampton,U.K., 1965, is Professor of Geography and Director, World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder/National Snow & Ice Data Center,…
University of Colorado, Boulder

David Abram

David Abram - cultural ecologist and philosopher -- is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World, for…
Alliance for Wild Ethics