mvuille@albany.edu
Mathias Vuille is a climate scientist in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University at Albany. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bern in Switzerland in 1995 and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on climate change, paleoclimate and major topics in environmental science. His research focuses on tropical paleoclimate and climate change impacts and glacier retreat in the tropical Andes. He has been involved in adaptation projects on behalf of UNESCO, the Interamerican Development Bank and the World Bank, and served as a senior fellow for the U.S. State Department’s Program on Energy and Climate Partnerships in the Americas (ECPA). He has served as a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as Associate Editor for Geophysical Research Letters and as a member of the U.S. National Committee (USNC) for the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA). He is currently a member of the Science Leadership Council of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on climate change in South America.
kristenr@rams.colostate.edu
Kristen Rasmussen received a B.S. in Meteorology and Mathematics and a B.A. in Music at the University of Miami in 2007. She completed her M.S. in 2011 and Ph.D. in 2014 from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. Her graduate research primarily focused on cloud and mesoscale processes of high-impact weather in South America using the TRMM satellite and flooding in India and Pakistan. Kristen was an Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and worked with scientists from the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Lab (MMM) and Research Applications Lab (RAL) from 2015 to 2016. She joined the CSU faculty in October 2016. Her research interests include investigating the global population of convective storms from the TRMM and GPM spaceborne precipitation radars, extreme deep convection in South America, flooding in Pakistan and India, cloud and mesoscale processes, high-impact weather, hydrometeorology, cloud-climate interactions, and convection-permitting regional climate modeling.
mark.9@osu.edu
Dr. Mark is a Professor in the Department of Geography at The Ohio State University, and also PI at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center where he directs the Glacier Environmental Change research group. His research focuses on climate change and water in different landscapes, specializing in low-latitude mountain glacier environments, and particularly the tropical Andes. He is a co-founder of the Transdisciplinary Andean Research Network (TARN). In collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, he integrates extensive field work with laboratory and computational analyses, incorporating watershed hydrology, hydrochemistry, glacial geology, paleoclimatology, modeling, UAV's, remote sensing and terrain analysis. He has conducted collaborative scientific expeditions in regions of the Andes, Alps, Asia, Africa, Antarctica and North America, and has been a Fulbright Scholar to Peru and visiting scholar in Switzerland. He teaches classes on climate change and also helped establish the State Climate Office of Ohio.
sdu4@albany.edu
Siyao Du works as the Project Manager for the AccelNet ACCORD project at the University of Albany. She holds an M.S. from Beijing Normal University and earned her Ph.D. in environmental microbiology from KU Leuven, Belgium, where she focused on bacterial interactions involved in pesticide biodegradation in drinking water treatment processes. Before starting in her position as AccelNet ACCORD project manager in the Vuille Lab, Siyao worked as an Assistant Research Scientist at the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health. There, her research explored the regulatory functions of novel small proteins in cysteine biosynthesis in mycobacteria.
carolina.adler@unibe.ch
Carolina Adler, a geographer and environmental scientist, is the Executive Director at the MRI and Co-Lead for GEO Mountains, the Global Network on Observations and Information in Mountain Environments. At the MRI, she is tasked with managing the MRI Coordination Office as well as coordinating research network activities across disciplines and mountain regions around the world, while engaging in science-policy dialogues and communications to support the uptake of mountain research in policy. Among her many roles, she is also a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment, specifically in the chapter on High Mountain Areas of the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC), published in September 2019, as well as the Working Group II contribution on Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation and Co-Lead for the Cross-Chapter Paper on Mountains, published in February 2022. Following a passion for mountaineering, she shares her environmental expertise as a delegate to the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (Union International des Associations d’Alpinisme – UIAA) Mountain Protection Commission, later in 2016 assuming the role of Commission President. When not at her work desk, Carolina is most likely to be found enjoying the great outdoors in the mountains.
kalverson@umass.edu
Keith Alverson is the Executive Director of the World Climate Research Program’s Climate and the Cryosphere Project. He has a PhD degree in Physical Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1995). His postdoctoral research in modeling past climate variability was in the Physics Department at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has served on a number of high level scientific panels including as President of the International Commission for Climate of the International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Secretary General of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Commission for Climatic and Environmental Change and Chair of the United Nations Interagency Coordination and Planning Committee for Earth Observations.
maria.laura.bettolli@gmail.com
I received the Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2007. I’m currently a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and a researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina.
My research focuses on climate variability and change and their impacts over South America. In particular, I’m interested in regional climate modeling with a focus on extremes events. My areas of concentration are statistical downscaling, high-resolution modeling studies and synoptic-climatology. I’m also interested in assessing the impacts of climate extremes on water resources, agriculture and health.
rbradley@umass.edu
Raymond Bradley is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Earth, Geographic and Climate Sciences, School of Earth and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research focuses on climate variations over recent centuries and millennia.
w.buytaert@imperial.ac.uk
Wouter Buytaert works at the interface between hydrological process understanding, water resources management, and global development. He focuses in particular on studying the impact of environmental change on the terrestrial water cycle, and its consequences for managing water resources and flood and drought risk. He applies and develops advanced methods for data collection, computer simulation, and knowledge transfer to support environmental decision making and development policies. He is working extensively in the Global South, with a particular interest in mountain regions such as the Andes and the Himalayas.
thomas.condom@ird.fr
Dr. Condom is a research scientist at the Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE) and the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) in Grenoble, France. He is a hydroglaciologist and serves as the Founding Director of the international research network ANDES-C2H. He is member of the Scientific Committee of the Instituto Javeriano del Agua Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. Between 2016 and 2020 he served as Co-Director of the International Joint Laboratory GREAT ICE (Glaciers as Indicators of Environmental Changes in the Tropical Andes). As part of GREAT ICE’s capacity-building efforts he has supervised several PhD students from Andean countries and worked in the Andes for over 20 years.
Bethan.Davies@newcastle.ac.uk
Bethan Davies is a Professor of Glaciology at Newcastle University. Her research quantifies how ice masses behave in different climates and environments, and has a global geographical coverage including the British-Irish Ice Sheet, Patagonia, the Andes, Alaska, Austria, Svalbard and the Antarctic Peninsula. She has undertaken multiple remote polar expeditions to the Antarctic, the high Andes and the Arctic. She was awarded the Richardson Medal by the International Glaciological Society in 2024, the Medal for Antarctic Education and Communication by SCAR in 2022, the Gordon Warwick medal for excellence in geomorphological research by the British Society for Geomorphology (2021) and the Lewis Penny Medal by the Quaternary Research Association in 2014. She is a member of the Board of Directors and trustee of the charity Antarctic Science Ltd., a member of the UK Antarctic Placenames Committee, chair of the UK Arctic-Antarctic Partnership and co-chair of Diversity in Polar Science Initiative. She is currently Editor for Quaternary Science Reviews.
deconto@umass.edu
Rob studies polar climate change, the response of ice sheets to a warming climate, and coastal impacts of sea-level rise. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado 1996. Rob serves on international science advisory boards and is a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Previously, he held research positions at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
fdrenkhan@pucp.pe
Fabian Drenkhan works at the interface of glaciology, water resources and climate change adaptation in the Tropical Andes with a regional focus in Peru. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Zurich with which he has collaborated on the Glaciers Project (2012-2019). Between 2019 and 2022 he was a postdoc at Imperial College London coordinating a part of the RAHU Project on water security in the Andes of Peru. Fabian has contributed to the report of Working Group II of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on water resources adaptation in Central and South America. Currently, Fabian works as an assistant professor in the Geography and Environment section at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). He is the coordinator of the Research Group on Glaciology and Ecohydrology of Andean Mountains (GEMS) at PUCP.
j.ely@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Jeremy Ely is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography and Planning, University of Sheffield, UK. His research focuses on combining numerical models of ice flow with observational data. He is principal investigator on Deplete and Retreat: The Future of Andean Water Towers, a ~£2.5 million Natural Environment Research Council grant which aims to upskill projections of water resources across the Andes.
jcev09@gmail.com
Jhan-Carlo Espinoza holds a Doctorate in Environmental Sciences from Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, France. He is a tenured Research Director position at the French Research Institute for sustainable development (IRD) and serves as a professor of Climatology in the Pontifical Catholic University (PUCP) in Peru. His research interests lie in impacts of climate variability and change in tropical South America, particularly in the Andes and Amazonia. These topics include extreme hydroclimate events, climate modeling, biosphere-atmosphere interactions and more. Currently he is a co-chair of the Regional Hydroclimatic Program for the Andes, ANDEX, supported by GEWEX, a core project of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and member of the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA).
rodolfoiturraspe@yahoo.com
Professor Iturraspe is senior researcher at the National University of Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, Argentina, with expertise on the hydrology of mountain regulatory systems of Southern Patagonia, within the context of the CC. He has studied the glaciers behavior in Tierra del Fuego and South Patagonia through his work at various local institutions, including the Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), the Water Agency of Tierra del Fuego and the local University. He is responsible for monitoring the Martial Glacier in Tierra del Fuego, which has a 24-year mass balance data that he reports to the WGMS. His research also involves hydrology, distribution, and conservation of peatlands and other mountain wetlands in southern Patagonia. Currently, he is the Coordinator of the Snow and Ice Working Group of the IHP-LAC, UNESCO, and is a member of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel STRP of the RAMSAR Convention for the years 2023-2025.
omar.lopez@dir.iai.int
Omar López Alfano is the Science Director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), in charge of the IAI's scientific programs and the development of initiatives, networks and partnerships for transdisciplinary research. He brings over 25 years of experience in scientific research and capacity building in the Americas. He earned his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Utah (USA) and completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) and the Center for Tropical Forest Science at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). He has been actively involved and played a leadership role at the science-government interface and has an extensive track record at the Institute. He served as Chair of the IAI's Scientific Advisory Committee for three years and was Chair of the Transdisciplinary Committee of the Congress of Research and Innovation in Sustainability (SRI 2023) held in Panama in partnership with the IAI, the Belmont Forum, and Future Earth.
mmasiokas@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar
Dr. Masiokas is an Independent Researcher at the Argentinean Institute for Snow, Ice and Environmental Research (IANIGLA-CONICET) in Mendoza. He has a Ph.D. in Geography (Univ. Western Ontario, Canada). His main scientific interests include the study of recent glacier and hydroclimatic variations in the southern Andes. He is the Co-Chair of ANDEX, the Regional Hydroclimatic Program for the Andes (https://www.andex-rhp.org/), and was a co-creator of the Andean Snow Observatory (https://observatorioandino.com/nieve/). A list of his most recent publications is at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mariano-Masiokas
jeffrey.mckenzie@mcgill.ca
Dr. McKenzie is a Professor and Chair at the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is a co-founder of the TARN network and an expert in glacio-hydrologic systems, glacial groundwater flow and meltwater geochemistry. He has worked on the influence of melting Andean glaciers on water resources since 2005. His research focuses on hydrogeology, including pore water flow in northern peatlands, heat transport, heat as a tracer of natural systems, groundwater modeling, coupled numerical models of pore water flow and heat transport with freeze/thaw processes, and the impact of melting tropical glaciers on water resources.
a.mishra@unesco.org
Dr. Anil Mishra is the Chief of the Hydrologic Systems, Climate Change and Adaptation (HAS) section within UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrologic Programme (IHP). He has worked with UNESCO-IHP since 2006 and been involved in a large number of international research efforts focused on education, capacity building, cooperation and project development in hydrology
and water resources management in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. In this capacity Dr. Mishra, has collaborated with the ACCION network since 2011, co-organizing summer schools for graduate students in Chile and Peru, and two Policy forums in Ecuador and Chile. Dr. Mishra also closely interacts with the GTNH network, as IHP is the main funding agency for the GTNH activities.
randy.munoz@geo.uzh.ch
Randy Muñoz researches on hydrological simulation, climate change adaptation, and risk assessment in glacierized high mountain regions with a transdisciplinary approach. His experience is based on both research and development projects in the Andes, working in collaboration with scientists, authorities, local leaders and people. Currently, his research focus in assessing the possible impacts of climate and socioeconomic drivers on water management in the Tropical Andes.
antoine.rabatel@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Dr. Antoine Rabatel is a glaciologist, Professor at the University of Grenoble Alps in France. He conducts researches of different mountain glaciers-related areas including surface mass balance processes, long term glaciological changes in relation with climate and related impacts on water resources, hydrological functioning of glacierized catchments and on biodiversity on recently deglaciated areas. His works mainly rely on field-based and remote sensing measurements of glacier surface processes. He is coordinating the activities of the French National Glacier Monitoring Service GLACIOCLIM in the tropical Andes in collaboration with local partners in Bolivia and Ecuador.
arivera@uchile.cl
Andrés is Geographer from Universidad de Chile (1989) and PhD in glaciology from the University of Bristol (2004). At present he is full professor of the Department of Geography, University of Chile, where is mainly doing undergraduate teaching and research. He has conducted and participated in several projects related to glaciers located all along the country and Antarctica, using remote sensing, LiDAR, radar, sonar and GPS, among other surveying methods. Andrés’s research has been related to small glaciers in the central Andes, glacier-volcano interactions in central-southern Chile, calving glaciers in Patagonia, and in Antarctica, he has focused his research in West Antarctica interior plateau, where he discovered a subglacial lake in 2014. He has a long list of publications and outreach activities that can be seen at his web page: www.glaciologia.cl
anna.stewart@dir.iai.int
Dr. Anna Stewart Ibarra is an expert on climate and health in Latin America. She received her PhD in ecology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) and Masters in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She serves as the Executive Director of the IAI. In this role, she works to promote full and open exchange of scientific information relevant to global change across IAI member states. She has more than 15 years of experience working with academic and government institutions in the region and has received Fulbright fellowships in Argentina and Ecuador.
mataylor@umass.edu
Meghan Taylor is the Executive Officer at the World Climate Research Programme Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) International Project Office hosted at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her background involves measuring and scaling greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost and wetland systems, as well as measuring changes in biogeochemical cycling as a result of changing climate.
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