External Advisory Board (EAB)
The External Advisory Board (EAB) is composed of researchers from around the world with strong expertise in building multi-institution research endeavors and in making funding allocation decisions.
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice & Associate Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center,
Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment,
The New School
Professor of Marine Science
Center for Environmental Science,
University of Maryland
Senior Researcher, Climate and Water, Deltares
Associate Professor, Utrecht University
Denman Endowed Professorship in Sustainable Resource Sciences, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Dean Emeritus, College of the Environment
University of Washington
Lisa Graumlich is a professor in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and dean emerita of the College of the Environment at the University of Washington. She has devoted her career to studying the causes and impacts of climate change, with a special focus on using paleoecological records such as tree-rings to understand the magnitude of human impacts. She is passionate about science communication, and she speaks frequently on climate change impacts and adaptation. She has testified on long-term climate variability before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and is the president of the American Geophysical Union as of January 1, 2023.
Lisa served as the inaugural dean of the UW College of the Environment from 2010 to 2021.
Research Scientist,
Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory
Kripa Jagannathan is a Research Scientist at the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). She is an interdisciplinary social scientist, and her work focuses on improving the usability of science for decision-making. Her specific fields of research include co-production of actionable science, the science of actionable knowledge or SOAK, and climate change adaptation & climate-resilient planning. At LBL, Kripa co-leads the co-production engagements for the Department of Energy funded project - HyperFACETS as well as the California Energy Commission funded project - Cal-Adapt Analytics Engine. In addition, Kripa is also working on an LBNL directorate funded project to develop institutional activities for scaling-up engaged research and actionable sciences at EESA.
Kripa was a contributing author for two adaptation chapters (Ch. 16 & 17) for IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report Working Group II. She was a Chapter Author (Ch. 18 on Complex Systems) for the Fifth US National Climate Assessment report. Kripa is also the current President-Elect of the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Science and Society Section (Jan 2023 onwards), and serves on the AGU’s Council Leadership Team (CLT). Kripa holds an MS and PhD from the Energy and Resources Group of UC Berkeley, and an MS in Environmental Studies from TERI University, New Delhi, India.
Associate Professor
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science,
University of Miami
Professor
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering,
Drexel University
Professor,
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
Dr. Ashaki Rouff is an Environmental Geochemist studying inorganic and organic contaminants in natural, human-impacted, and engineered systems with the goal of environmental preservation and sustainability. Current research includes quantification and speciation of heavy metals in urban environments and evaluation of sustainably sourced sorbents for greenhouse and contaminant gas capture.
Senior Economist
World Bank Sustainable Development Group
Distinguished Senior Fellow
Global Resilience Institute,
Northeastern University
Dean of Research,
College of Arts, Sciences, & Education (CASE), Florida International University
Dr. Rita Teutonico is Dean of Research for the College of Arts, Sciences & Education (CASE) at Florida International University in Miami, FL. She leads the CASE Research Development office which assists with over $100M of competitive proposals annually. Prior to joining FIU, Dr. Teutonico was the State Director for Utah EPSCoR where she coordinated the state-wide network for the $20M Research Infrastructure Improvement program. She also served for over 12 years at the National Science Foundation where she held many senior level positions in 3 different Directorates (BIO, SBE, and GEO). She also led many NSF-wide initiatives, including Science Engineering & Education for Sustainability (SEES), Human & Social Dynamics, and most recently Coastlines and People (CoPe) Hubs program. She has deep experience with Federal funding agencies from her participation in multiple interagency working groups, including USGCRP strategic planning and Office of Science & Technology Policy group on biotechnology research.
Dr. Teutonico received NSF Director’s awards for both Management Excellence and Collaborative Integration. In her academic roles, she has served as PI on many successfully funded proposals, including NSF CREST Center, REU Site, and BIO-RET Site, as well as NASA workshop on Open Scholarship. Prior to NSF service, she was Associate Professor of Integrated Science & Technology at James Madison University, where she led the reform of the Foundational Curriculum, co-led the Biotechnology section, and received the ‘Faculty of 21st Century’ distinction for excellence in STEM education and active learning. She has a PhD from University of Pennsylvania and BS from Cornell University