Eliot Aguilar

Kazi Ahmed works with Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig and Dr. Francesco Tubiello on an OECD funded project, development of climate change impact and adaptation metrics. Prior to that, she contributed to the project on assessing the observed changes in systems and sectors as a response to climate change. In summer 2005, she has done climate research at the Department of Environment and Conservation in Sydney, Australia. Kazi is a 2006 graduate of the International Affairs program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Her concentration was Environmental Policy Studies with a focus on climate change. She has a bachelor's degree in economics. Kazi loves people, music, art, books and far away places.

Jennifer Alltop is a PhD student at Columbia University who is interested in Atmospheric Science and Climate Change. Her current research project is a comparative study of predicted changes in water availability in global circulation models. She has a BA in Astronomy-Physics from University of Virginia and a MS in Geoscience from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Perinaz Bhada has been a Research Assistant with CCSR since June 2005. She completed her Master of International Affairs student at the School of International and Public Affairs, specializing in Environmental Policy in 2006 and is currently pursuing a degree in environmental engineering at Columbia. Before joining SIPA, she was a Case Manager at Dewey Ballantine and worked on civil and environmental litigation. She works part-time with Cynthia Rosenzweig.

David Boswell is a second year Master of Public Administration student at the School of International and Public Affairs studying science and technology policy. Before returning to school, David worked in New York as an Internet developer and project manager.

Greg Faluvegi

Richard Goldberg is a meteorologist who has been working at GISS for the last 18 years with Cynthia Rosenzweig on a wide range of projects. Some of my specialties include looking at observed climate trends, and future climate projections, validation of the GISS GCM and MM5 finer scale regional climate models, Palmer Drought Index and WATBAL analysis for the current and future climate, modeling the impact of climate change on crops using the DSSAT software package as well as many other miscellaneous projects.

Rick Healy is a Systems Analyst at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His interests include Regional Climate Impacts and Paleoclimate Tracer Modeling and his current research project is CLIME (Climate & Lake Impacts in Europe), using integrated regional climate and water quality models to study climate change issues in New York area watersheds.

Radley Horton has completed his Ph.D. research at Columbia University's Department of Earth and Environmental Science and NASA GISS. His research interests include climate impacts and mitigation, and modeling of climate variability and its regional signatures under climate change scenarios.

Jeff Jonas

Allegra LeGrande is a Graduate Research Assistant and is currently researching 8.2 kyr event, gridded d18Osw dataset, Gulf Stream path during the LGM. She has degress from Rice University and Columbia University and is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Jean Lerner

Eden Licardo

Ken Mankoff is a Programmer and Analyst involved in scientific visualization. He is currently involved with the Educational Global Climate Monitoring group.

Jose Mendoza is a computer graphic artist working for the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. His work involves mostly technical drawings for climate change maps and graphs to be used in presentations, publications, and for instructional purposes. Jose has worked at GISS since the 1970s, following his graduation from Fordham.

Peter Neofotis is from Lexington, Virginia, and is a 2003 graduate of Columbia College, where he majored in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology and creative writing. He also conducted research at Biosphere 2, where he grew mesquite trees under elevated CO2 and drought conditions. Currently, Peter works with Dr. Rosenzweig on assessing the observed changes in systems and sectors as a response to climate change. Over the past two years, he has collected and read hundreds of scientific papers on the topic and is currently compiling them in a GIS database. He has also worked with Dr. Rosenzweig and Dr. Hillel on a study of biodiversity and agriculture, and served as Dr. Rosenzweig's teaching assistant for her class, Agriculture and Urban Land Use.

Lily Parshall is a second-year PhD Candidate in Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. Her research interests include urban climate impacts and mitigation strategies, water resources management, and how climate and water resources affect development. She has a B.A. in Earth and Environmental Science from Columbia University and has studied New York City's urban heat island. Currently, she is working on a project that examines the development of the agricultural sector in the United Arab Emirates and its impact on water resources use.

Steven Richards

Chris Shashkin

Asher Siebert majored in earth science as an undergraduate, did two years of a PhD program in physical oceanography but then discovered that while he liked science research, he wanted to do something more applied which integrated his scientific background with real world adaptation measures. He is now in the final phase of his Masters program in the Climate and Society Program at Columbia. His work with the NYCDEP CCTF uses global climate models to construct model-based probabilistic forecasts for temperature, precipitation and sea level within the New York City Metropolitan Region. After graduation, he doesn't know exactly what he wants to do but is interning at GISS and at IRI while trying to figure that out. He also likes music and martial arts and played trumpet in a klezmer band this past year.

Melissa Stults is a 2005 graduate of the Climate and Society Masters Program at Columbia University. Her interests are in the formation of climate change policy and the interface between science, policy, and public perception. Prior to attending the Masters program at CU, Melissa attended the University of New England where she studied Marine Biology and Environmental Studies. Currently, she works with Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig and Dr. David Major on the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's Climate Change Task Force. Prior to this role, Melissa served as Program Coordinator for the Global Roundtable on Climate Change.

Marta Vicarelli is Ph.D. Candidate in Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. Her principle field of research includes risk management and financing for extreme events, primarily related to climate change and private-public partnerships in managing large-scale emerging environmental risks. She is also a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group II, Chapter on Observed Changes and Responses in Natural and Managed Systems and Sectors.