Participants
Directors

Karen Fisher-Vanden
Distinguished Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State
Director, Institute for Sustainable Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Science (SAFES)

Robert Nicholas
Associate Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State
Director, Penn State Center for Climate Risk Management (CLIMA)

John Weyant
Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
Senior Personnel

Danielle Grogan
Research Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire

Iman Haqiqi
Senior Research Economist, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

Murali Haran
Professor & Head, Department of Statistics, Penn State

Thomas Hertel
Distinguished Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

Klaus Keller
Hodgson Distinguished Professor, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

Richard Lammers
Research Associate Professor, School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering, University of New Hampshire

Sheila Olmstead
Professor, Brooks School of Public Policy, and
Senior Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Cornell University

Wolfram Schlenker
Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Vivek Srikrishnan
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

Ryan Sriver
Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ian Sue Wing
Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, Boston University

Mort Webster
Professor, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Penn State

Douglas Wrenn
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education, Penn State
Research Scientists

Stanley Glidden
Information Technologist, Earth Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire

Lidiia Iavorivska
PCHES Project Manager
Assistant Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State

Jing Liu
Research Economist, Department
of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

Femeena Pandara Valappil
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Penn State

Alexander Prusevich
Research Scientist, Earth Systems Research Center,
University of New Hampshire

Kelsey Ruckert
Coastal Climate Extension Specialist, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State

Jiameng Zheng
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, Louisiana State University

Shantar Zuidema
Research Scientist, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire
Postdocs

David Lafferty
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

Edouard Mensah
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, Penn State

Adam Pollack
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

Samantha Roth
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Students

Tahsina Alam
Ph.D. Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Theo Avila
B.S. Student, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Jonathan Celaya
Ph.D. Student, Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering (Operations Research), Penn State

Sizhuo Chen
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State

Becker (Rebecca) Gibson
Research Assistant, Earth Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire

Spencer Guerrero
Ph.D. Student, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois

Kelly Kennedy
PhD Student, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Keiko Kircher
Ph.D. Student, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Zhuoran (Gray) Li
Ph.D. Student, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State

Yifan Luo
Ph.D. Student, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

Tiemeng Ma
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State

Amna Omer
Ph.D. Student, Earth and Environmental Sciences Program, University of New Hampshire

Nicolas Schneider
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University

Mingzhou Shen
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State

Katerina Tang
Ph.D. Student, Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University

Roberto Zuniga
Ph.D. Student, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Consultants

Katie Daenzer
Research Scientist, Independent Consultant

Qin Fan
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, California State University, Fresno

Jeff Nucciarone
R&D Engineer, Institute for Computational and Data Science, Penn State
Staff

Matthew Lisk
Scientific Programmer, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State

Pamela McCroskey
Assistant to Director, Energy Modeling Forum, Stanford University

Polly Yan
Administrative Associate, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Alumni, Collaborators, and Affiliates

Atieh Alipour (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Physical Scientist, Lynker, Affiliate of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Salvi Asefi-Najafabady (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Associate Director, Climate Risk

Sitara Baboolal (PCHES Researcher Alumnus)
Formerly Research Programmer, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

Uris Baldos (PCHES Researcher Alumnus)
Research Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

Seth Blumsack
Professor, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Penn State

Thomas Braun (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Formerly Ph.D. Student, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Jesse Bukenberger (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State

Bob Caccese (PCHES Researcher Alumnus)
Assistant Counsel, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission

Kate Calvin
Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor, NASA

Jared Carbone
Associate Professor, Division of Economics and Business, Colorado School of Mines

Hande Nur Celebi (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Risk Analyst, Tricon Energy, Houston, TX

Juan-Carlos Ciscar
Senior scientist, Joint Research Centre, European Commission

Alfredo Cisneros-Pineda (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO)

Noah Diffenbaugh (PCHES Researcher Alumnus)
Professor, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

Chris Forest
Associate Professor, Department of Meteorology, Penn State

Lara Fowler
Director, Penn State Sustainability
Chief Sustainability Officer, Penn State
Senior Lecturer, Penn State Law

Steve Frolking
Research Professor Emeritus, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire

Michael Goss (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Scientist, Climate Prediction Center, National Weather Service, NOAA

Florian Grosset (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, CREST –ENSAE Paris

Mohamad Hejazi
Research Fellow, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC)

Emily Hogan (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Senior Scientist, Nutrien Ag Solutions

Jill Horing (PCHES Student Alumnus)
CCST S&T Policy Fellow, Office of Chair Hochschild, California Energy Commission

Iman Hosseini-Shakib (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Technical Specialist in Water Practice, Michael Baker International

Harshanee Jayasekera (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State

Zhenong Jin (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota

H. Allen Klaiber
Professor and Graduate Studies Chair, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University

Katerina Kostadinova
Formerly Administrative Support Coordinator, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Penn State

Vijay Kumar (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Senior Data Scientist, Procter and Gamble

Jonathan Lamontagne (PIAMMDI Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University

Ben (Seiyon) Lee (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Assistant Professor, Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University

Cicero Lima (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Temporary Professor, Department of Economics, Federal University of Pelotas

David Lobell (PCHES Researcher Alumnus)
Associate Professor, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University

Suhail Mahmud (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Atmospheric Data Scientist, Karen Clark & Company

Erin Mansur
Revers Professor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Faculty Director, Revers Center for Energy, Dartmouth College

Verena McClain (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Economist, USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

Robert Mendelsohn
Edwin Weyerhaeuser Professor, School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies, Yale University

Erwan Monier (MSD Community of Practice Co-Lead)
Associate Professor, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis

Rachel Morrison
Formerly Research Scientist, Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center, University of New Hampshire

Richard Moss (MSD Community of Practice Co-Lead)
Senior Scientist, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Duc Nguyen (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Formerly M.Sc. Candidate, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Penn State

William Nordhaus
Sterling Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Economics; Professor Emeritus of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Economics, Yale University

Jared Oyler (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Senior Geospatial Scientist, Jupiter Intelligence

Darrah Peklak (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Associate Economist, Moody's Analytics

Joseph Perla (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Economist, National Center for Environmental Economics, United States Environmental Protection Agency

Julian Plough (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Coastal Resilience Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Brian Reed (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Machine Learning Engineer, Rhizome

Patrick Reed (MSD Community of Practice Co-Lead)
Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

Renata Rimsaite (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute & National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska Lincoln

Yasmin Romitti (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Formerly Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University

Joel Roop-Eckart (PCHES Research Assistant Alumnus)
Technical Account Manager, Qualtrics

Charles Rougé (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Lecturer in Water Resilience, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The University of Sheffield

Charu Samantula (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Energy Analyst, Ascend Analytics

Ali Sarhadi (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)

Sanjib Sharma (PCHES Researcher Alumnus)
Assistant Professor, Howard University

Alexander Shiklomanov (PCHES Researcher Alumnus)
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire

James Shortle (PCHES Researcher Alumnus)
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State

Caitlin Spence (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Climate Resilience Engineer and Data Scientist, Kleinfelder

Wenjing Su (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Penn State

Shanxia Sun (PCHES Researcher Alumnus)
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, Shanghai University

Brayam Valqui (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Penn State

Nathalie Voisin
Chief Scientist, Earth System Predictability, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Affiliate Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington

Haochen Ye (PCHES Student Alumnus)
Research and Development Scientist, Rain and Hail Insurance

Mahkameh Zarekarizi (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Research Scientist, Amazon

Bining Zhao (PCHES Postdoctoral Alumnus)
Application Engineer, Hitachi Energy