Climate Change

David's research focuses on environmental governance and institutional transformation. He asks where, when, and how citizens and others have influenced the design and functioning of core institutions, organizations, technologies, and processes in more environmentally sustainable and socially equitable directions.

Previously, Garrett Fitzgerald served as Strategic Collaboration Director for the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), a peer network of local government sustainability directors and related staff from more than 200 communities...

I study relationships between water and communication and how tides, rivers, and oceans shape diverse collaborations for justice, decolonization, and resilience. I use engaged research methodologies to co-create knowledge about water and communication in the context of coastal shellfishing communities, river restoration and freshwater conservation initiatives, and large-scale science-based collaborations.

Ms. Bamberger is the lead staff on the U.S. Forest and Urban Forest Protocols and is a core staff of the Cap-and-Trade program at the California Air Resources Board. She has been with ARB since the inception of the Climate Change Branch in...

Nathan McClintock is a geographer and professor of urban studies at the Instut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His research focuses on the intersection of formal and everyday environmental governance (notably of food and waste), political economy, and environmental justice in North American cities and the Canadian Arctic. He is co-director of the C3V, a space for collaborative research using audio, visual, and cartographic storytelling and is an an editor of the journal Urban Geography.

Steve Chase, a Leadership Grant Recepient, was the founding Director of the Environmental Studies masters program in Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability at Antioch University New England from 2002 to 2014. He has worked as the...

Caitlin Crain is a coastal ecologist, studying the dynamics of coastal ecosystems to better protect and restore resilient, functioning systems that benefit nature and people. She specializes in coastal wetlands and the multiple stressors impacting their health and function including sea-level rise and climate change. She works at landscape scales and with the diverse human communities that are impacted by coastal climate change.

Dr. Amber Pairis is the Founder and Lead Advisor of the Climate Science Alliance and Associate Research Faculty with the Western Regional Climate Center at the Desert Research Institute. The Climate Science Alliance was created in 2015 out...

Keya is a Natural Resources and Environment Policy Analyst for the Government Accountability Office in Boston, MA, where she began working in 2007. Her expertise is in federal policy related to energy and climate change. Currently, she is...