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Adaptation to climate change - Photo: P. Casier (CGIAR)
Photo: P. Casier (CGIAR)

Adaptation to climate change

Adaptation is increasingly important as we experience the negative effects of climate change around the world.  Switzer Fellows have been at the forefront of thinking about adaptation strategies for over a decade.

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Putting Adaptation on the Agenda
Putting Adaptation on the Agenda

What started as an offhand remark by Lara Hansen (1995) to a funder, about how to use some leftover money from a grant, has become the largest national conference on adaptation to climate change. Actually, it is the only national conference on the topic, which is surprising given adaptation’s importance to humans in coming decades and centuries.Read more >

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Fellows in the News

Fellows in the News | May 17, 2023
St. Antoine’s Front Country wins Green Earth Book Award
Fellows in the News | Apr 17, 2023
Harris co-authors a case for experimental and speculative political ecologies
Fellows in the News | Mar 21, 2023
Zeller co-authors research finding protected areas not likely to serve as steppingstones for climate-induced range shifts

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Accessible data for climate-smart agriculture
Year: 2021
Region: New England
Climate-smart agriculture is an important approach to reorient agricultural systems to become resilient to climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon. Data is vital infrastructure to support these practices and other nature-based solutions for climate change. However,...Read more >
Supporting Wetlands Managers - Year Two
Year: 2014
Region: New England
This grant will support a second year of Brenda Zollitsch's work as Policy Analyst at the Association of State Wetland Managers (ASWM). Last year, ASWM was awarded a $30,000 Switzer Leadership Grant to create this new position for Brenda. The organization is actively fundraising for the...Read more >
Leading the San Diego Climate Science Alliance
Year: 2014
Region: California
Dr. Amber Pairis was hired by the California Landscape Conservation Cooperative (CA LCC) to develop and lead the San Diego Climate Science Alliance. The CA LCC is a collaborative of regional networks organized under the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that links scientific expertise with on-the-...Read more >

Featured Fellows

Amber Pairis
Amber Pairis
2001 Fellow
Founder and Lead Advisor
Climate Science Alliance
Anne Clark Baker
Anne Baker
2013 Fellow
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American Flood Coalition
Nicole Heller
Nicole Heller
2004 Fellow
Curator of Anthropocene Studies
Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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