Leadership Team
Dr. Heidi Roop
Director — on temporary federal detail
Dr. Nathan Meyer
Interim Director
Amanda Farris
Associate Director
Brian Shekleton
Strategic Partnerships & Climate Policy Lead
Katie Black
Climate Resilience Extension Educator
Dr. Kent Boyd, DNP, RN, PHN
Climate Adaptation, Resilience, and Public Health Extension Educator
Dr. Suzanna Clark
Climate Resilience Extension Educator
Dena Coffman
GIS Specialist
Martin Froger Silva
Digital Content Coordinator
Britta Greene
Climate Communications Specialist
Jothsna Harris
Climate Justice Fellows Curriculum Developer
Dr. Stefan Liess
Climate Scientist
Christy Marsden
Curriculum Manager
Dr. Jamie Mosel
Climate Resilience Extension Educator
Dr. Mark Seeley
Emeritus Professor
Maria Tomczik
Project Coordinator
Cristina Weske
Tribal Climate Adaptation & Resilience Extension Educator
Catherine J. Bruns
Ph.D. Candidate
Patrick Cipriano
HGA-MCAP Intern
Berg Ellenberger
Dr. of Nursing Practice student
Eve Vanagas
Master's student
Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board helps inform our organizational priorities to ensure MCAP remains responsive to emerging climate-related issues and helps define organizational approaches to center principles of equitable resilience and social equity in all facets of our climate resilience research and practice. Board members serve a two-year term.
Marissa Ahlering
Lead Scientist
The Nature Conservancy in MN-ND-SD
Ann Banitt
Senior Hydraulic Engineer
Regional Technical Specialist - Hydrology, Statistics, and Risk
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District
Joseph Baukemper
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota Duluth
Kenneth Blumenfeld
Senior Climatologist
Minnesota State Climatology Office
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Meredith Cornett
Climate Change Director
The Nature Conservancy in MN-ND-SD
Troy Goodnough
Directory of Sustainability
University of Minnesota Morris
Patrick Hamilton
Manager of Sustainability Initiatives
Science Museum of Minnesota
Ariane Laxo
Sustainability Director
HGA
Olivia LeDee
Acting Director
Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center
Brad Jordahl Redlin
Manager
Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Sharon Stephens
Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Jamie Stroble
Owner
Noio Pathways
Steve Vavrus
Director, Wisconsin State Climatology Office
Co-director, Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI)
University of Wisconsin-Madison