Climate Change

Leadership Grant Grant

Climate Impacts Scientist, Year 2

This grant provides a second year of funding for Amy Luers's position as Climate Impacts Scientist in UCS’s California office after a very successful first year in the position. This new position, under their "Global Program", has allowed...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Promoting Clean Energy and Good Jobs in the Western States, Year 2

This funding was provided to promote Jeremy Hays into the position of Western States Organizing Director for the Apollo Alliance. Last year Jeremy was hired as Western States Organizer working in California, Oregon, and Colorado. Jeremy...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Science Links Carbon Project, Year 1

To hire Will Yandik as full-time staff in charge of the policy and outreach components of Hubbard Brook Research Foundation’s Science Links Carbon Project. The Carbon Project is a collaborative effort headed by the Hubbard Brook Research...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Communicating about Ecological Thresholds

To hire Ariane de Bremond as staff to assist with the Heinz Center's Global Change Program, focusing on protected area management and ecological thresholds as they pertain to adaptations to climate change. Ariane will focus, in particular...
March 29, 2010
Foundation News

Climate Change Adaptation (Switzer Webinar Series)

Switzer Fellow Dr. Lara Hansen and her colleague, Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, both of EcoAdapt, presented their work on climate change adaptation and the challenges faced by practitioners and resource managers. Drs. Hansen and Hoffman also...
March 23, 2010
Fellow

Margaret Torn

1990 Fellow
Margaret is the Program Head of the Climate Change and Carbon Management program which is part of the Earth Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research focuses on carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial...
Fellow

Greg Norris

1991 Fellow
Greg Norris is Co-Director of SHINE (the Sustainability and Health Initiative for Net-positive Enterprise), an initiative of the Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Health and the Global Environment. He also conducts research...
Fellow

Bailey Green

1990 Fellow
Bailey Green (on right, in photo) is currently a Guest Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division. He is also a founding member of LBL\'s Water Energy Technology Team (WETT)...
Fellow

Thomas Starrs

1993 Fellow
Tom has a long history of interdisciplinary research on renewable energy issues. Tom completed a concurrent degree program at UC Berkeley, earning a MA from the Energy and Resources Group and a JD from the School of Law (Boalt Hall). His...
Fellow

Lisa Micheli

1993 Fellow
I specialize in supporting organizations focused on designing and scaling nature-based solutions that protect and enhance terrestrial and marine environments—working hand-in-hand with communities at the front lines of global change.