Here is my piece of CAKE. My main research interest is adaptation to climate change in water management. Based at the Centre for Water and Climate of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, my research is firmly rooted in the global change community branching out into institutional as well as biophysical aspect. My work seeks to identify robust land and water management strategies and opportunities to implement these strategies at the regional scale. My scientific background in water management, climate adaptation, environmental sciences and experimental physics is complemented by practical experience, working in the national government and the private sector.

I was an elected official in Santa Cruz County, California for twenty years. Now, I am an environmental attorney, "Of Counsel" to the law firm of Wittwer & Parkin. To get my perspective on land use and planning issues, please listen to the Land Use Report that I give each weekday morning on KUSP Radio, covering land use policy issues on the California Central Coast.

Stan Bronson is a sixth generation Floridian, born in Orlando, with undergrad education done at Florida Southern College and grad work done at Florida Atlantic University and the University of Florida.  Spending most of his career in the citrus industry, 14 years of which was COO of Callery-Judge Groves, in 1999 he joined the extension faculty of the University of Florida, developing a natural resources education program for South Florida ecosystem restoration initiatives. That program has evolved into the Florida Earth Foundation, begun in January 2002.  FEF is a public-private partnership of over 70 agencies, universities, industries and not-for-profits, whose mission is to “put people together through education, outreach and facilitation to ensure the environmental integrity of Florida and quality of life.  Bronson now serves as Executive Director of Florida Earth, which administers Florida’s only permanent program with the United Nations, the UNESCO-IHE/Florida Earth Partnership and USNC, the US-Netherlands Connection Program, which is a knowledge exchange between the US and the Netherlands on climate change adaptation and water management.  Coming from a ranching family who supplied the land for Disney World in the 60’s, Stan’s love of the land has always been an inspiration throughout his career.

I am an ecosystems ecologist specializing in natural resource conservation and restoration.  My focus is on integrating conservation and restoration practices in a manner that provides real benefit to glocal (global-local) community with a range of ecosystem functions and services.

I'm a Communicator with Virginia Sea Grant, specializing in media relations and online communication (social networks, online video, online photography, etc).

Nathaly Agosto Filión is honored to be joining the U.S. Climate & Environment Program Team in the role of Program Officer. Nathaly is passionate about practicing sustainability through environmental and social justice activism, personal behavior change, community organizing and civic engagement.

After studying ecology and outdoor education at the University of Vermont, Nathaly worked as environmental educator using New York City's parks and green spaces with the City Parks Foundation and Christodora, Inc. In shifting her attention to focus on the climate crisis, she took on the role of community organizer with Oxfam America’s Climate Justice campaign and interned with 350.org before returning to academia to complete a Master's degree in Natural Resources. Her graduate project, "Preparing and Adapting to Climate Change in Rural Dominican Republic: An Assessment of Community Preparedness for Lake Enriquillo Flooding," focuses on bridging the distance between national climate adaptation planning and community-level development priorities, especially in the context of disaster risk preparedness. Most recently, Nathaly has been consulting with the Climate Action Planning team of Burlington, Vermont to systemize and streamline municipal greenhouse gas emissions accounting.

I direct the freshwater climate change program at Conservation International.

I work on freshwater climate adaptation policy, practice, and adaptation science. I also run http://climatechangewater.org and http://AdaptationAction.org.