Noah directs Defenders' effort to create and implement policies and strategies to safeguard wildlife and habitat from the impacts of global warming. Working with a team of scientists, policy experts, attorneys, and communications specialists, Noah is developing climate change adaptation strategies for land and wildlife managers, and is working to influence climate change adaptation policies in federal agencies. Noah was the project director for Defenders' award-winning report, Refuges at Risk: the Threat of Global Warming, which highlighted the impacts of global warming on national wildlife refuges and recommendations to address the impacts.