Dr. Heidi Roop
Director
Dr. Nathan Meyer
Associate Director
Katie Black
Climate Resilience Extension Educator
Dr. Kent Boyd
Climate Adaptation, Resilience, and Public Health Extension Educator
Dena Coffman
GIS Specialist
Martin Froger Silva
Digital Content Coordinator
Britta Greene
Climate Communications Specialist
Dr. Ryan Harp
Applied Climate Scientist
Dr. Stefan Liess
Climate Scientist
Christy Marsden
Curriculum Manager
Dr. Zac McEachran
Research Hydrologist
Dr. Sam Potter
Applied Climate Scientist
Madi Rian
NOAA Fellow
Kristen Schmitt
Climate Resilience Extension Educator
Dr. Mark Seeley
Emeritus Professor
Seth Spencer
Climate Adaptation and Resilience Extension Educator
Maria Tomczik
Senior Program Coordinator
Cristina Weske
Tribal Climate Adaptation & Resilience Extension Educator
Partners
Jessica Beyer
Deputy Director
Region Nine Development Commission
Griffin Peck
Energy and Adaptation Planner
West Central Initiative
Deanna Geelhoed
Climate Resilience Planner
Arrowhead Regional Development Commission
Sam Sharp
Energy and Environment Planner
Region Nine Development Commission
Elizabeth Mboutchom
Clean Energy & Community Resiliency Program Officer
Initiative Foundation
Andrea Elvir Flores
Ph.D. 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
Joseph Baukemper
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota Duluth
Kenneth Blumenfeld
Senior Climatologist
Minnesota State Climatology Office
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Troy Goodnough
Directory of Sustainability
University of Minnesota Morris
Ariane Laxo
Sustainability Director
HGA
Kevin O’Donnell
Assistant Regional Administrator
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