
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
Climate Adaptation, Resilience, and Public Health Extension Educator

Dena Coffman
GIS Specialist

Martin Froger Silva
Digital Content Coordinator

Britta Greene
Climate Communications Specialist

Dr. Stefan Liess
Climate Scientist

Christy Marsden
Curriculum Manager

Maria Tomczik
Project Coordinator

Cristina Weske
Tribal Climate Adaptation & Resilience Extension Educator

Dr. Mark Seeley
Emeritus Professor
Partners

Jessica Beyer
Deputy Director
Region Nine Development Commission

Elizabeth Mboutchom
Clean Energy & Community Resiliency Program Officer
Initiative Foundation

Jothsna Harris
Climate Justice Fellows Curriculum Developer
Change Narrative

Deanna Geelhoed
Climate Resilience Planner
Arrowhead Regional Development Commission

Griffin Peck
Climate Resilience Officer
West Central Initiative
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
Peatland Resilience Project Coordinator
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