Seth Tuler (PI) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies Division, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA. Seth’s research interests concern public participation, risk governance, and developing tools to characterize human impacts and vulnerabilities to risk events. His work on climate change adaptation has built on this work, by developing methods to support learning and inform decision makers in several NOAA funded projects. He was a co-creator of the Vulnerability, Consequences, and Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS) Process (www.vcapsforplanning.org). He seeks to apply insights emerging from research to practical applications in a wide range of policy arenas, including climate change adaptation planning, nuclear waste management, renewable energy facility siting, and clean-up of contaminated sites.

Carrick Eggleston is Professor and Head in Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  His research interests have centered on environmental chemistry and the interaction of geomaterials with fluids and organisms in environmental transformations, from crystal growth/dissolution to interfacial electron transfer and photoelectrochmical processes. He has worked on carbon capture and storage, solar fuels and energy materials, and more recently, on climate change, renewable energy systems, and energy transition. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Applied Earth Sciences

Oleg Pavlov is an Associate Professor of Economics and System Dynamics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He uses simulations and systems tools to study causal feedback effects in complex social and economic systems. He was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank and held visiting faculty positions in Finland, China, Russia, and the UK. Pavlov serves on the editorial boards of the System Dynamics Review, The Entrepreneurship Research Journal, Review of Business and Economics Studies, and Systems. He holds an MBA from Cornell University and a PhD and MA in Economics and a BS in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

Stephen McCauley is Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He co-directs WPI’s Melbourne, Australia project center, where he coordinates action-research projects with civic organizations to address issues at the interface of technology, society and the environment. He has also co-directed WPI’s Global Lab, a collaborative that works to elevate the impacts of action-research collaborations through creative scholarship, storytelling, and research coordination. A geographer with broad substantive interests in climate change preparedness, urban resilience, energy system innovation, community participation in environmental decision-making, citizen science, and GI Science for urban planning, his current work addresses urban heat island dynamics and green infrastructure and other planning interventions that can mitigate the vulnerabilities associated with extreme heat in cities. 

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Sarah Strauss is Professor of Anthropology and Co-director of the MS program in Community Climate Adaptation at the Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She has been visiting faculty at NCAR (US National Center for Atmospheric Research), University of Fribourg (CH), and Pondicherry University (IN), and served on the Global Climate Change Task Force of the American Anthropological Association. Strauss conducts research at the intersection of environmental and health values and practices, especially those related to water, climate change, and energy transitions. Her books include Weather, Climate, Culture (2003, edited with Ben Orlove) and Cultures of Energy (2013, edited with Stephanie Rupp and Thomas Love).