Research Staff
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.