Associate Research Scholars and Postdoctoral Research Associates (former)

• Garrett Albistegui Adler(2023-2025) Term Lecturer Environmental Science,  Barnard College
• Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra (2012-2016) Director of Research and Planning, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Greater Boston, MA
• Bethany Bradley (2006-2009) Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, UMass- Amherst
• Keynyn Brysse (2008-2011) Freelance Editor and Contract Copy Editor for Taylor & Francis; Editor/Proofreader for Scribendi
• Ruohong Cai (2011-2014) Vice President Model Risk Governance and Review, J.P. Morgan Chase , NYC
• Divyansch Chug ( 2024-2026)  Senior Scientist,  Aon - Catastrophe Insight Team
• Simon Donner (2002-2007) Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• Frank Erickkson ( 2020-2024) AAAS  STPF Fellow  US State Department
• Lyndon Despard Estes (2008-2017) Professor, Department of Geography, Clark University
• Shuaizhang Feng (2008-2010)  Professor and Dean of the Institute for Economic and Social Research at Jinan University, Guangzhou China.
• Gregory Garner (2016-2018) Regrow Ag: Senior Spatial Statistician and Independent Researcher
• Stefan Gerber – Associate Professor, Landscape Biogeochemistry, Department of Soil and Water Science, University of Florida
• Josh Hooker (2005-2008) Research staff, Environmental Science Division, University of Redding, UK
• Sol Hsiang (2011-2013) Professor of Environmental Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
• Elmira Kalhor (2019-2022) Private research consulting
• Robert Kopp (2007-2009) Professor Earth and Planetary Sciences, co-director University Office of Climate Action, Rutgers University
• Stephanie Lackner (2017-2019), Senior Economist at the Health Economics department of the Austrian National Public Health Institute (GÖG – Gesundheit Östereich GmbH)
• Rachel Licker (2012-2016) Principal Climate Scientist, Climate and Energy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington , DC
• Manuel Lisenmeier (2024- 2025)  Professor of Environmental Economics, Goethe-University - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Christopher Little (2012-2014) Climate Scientist, Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), Boston, MA
• Yonggang Liu (2012-2015) Research Professor Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Peking University
• Kyle Meng (VRC 2013-2014) Associate Professor, Bren School, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Vaishali Naik (2003-2007) Physical Scientist, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton
• Jessica O'Reilly (2008-2010) Associate Professor, Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Ben Schenkel (WWS/CEE 2015-2017)  Research Scientist - Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations & NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory University of Oklahoma
• Adam Schneider (2017-2020), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Lisa Thalheimer ( 2021-2022) Senior Researcher United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany
• Loring Thomas ( 2024-2026) Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, U . of Colorado , Boulder
• Nathan Urban (2010-2011) Group Leader/Computational Scientist, Applied Mathematics, Brookhaven National Lab
• Mark Vardy (2016-2018), Faculty, Department of criminology Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond, Canada
• Dazhi Xi - (2024- 2026)  Assistant Professor of Earth Science, University of Hong Kong
• Emmi Yonekura (2012-2015) Associate Physical Scientist, RAND Corporation
• Alice Tianbo Zhang (2019-2020) Assistant Professor of Economics, Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics at Washington & Lee University
• Lei Zhao (2015-2018) Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois
• updated 7 23 2025