Dr. C. Mark Eakin is Coordinator of NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch, an effort focused on the monitoring of coral reef ecosystems through satellite, in situ, and paleoenvironmental observations. A coral reef specialist, with a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Miami, Dr. Eakin has published on various topics in coral reef ecology, especially the impact of climate change and other disturbance on coral reefs.  This includes El Niño impacts on eastern Pacific coral reefs in coral reef ecology and carbonate budgets, thermal stress and coral bleaching, ocean acidification, oil spills, coral paleoclimatology, and the behavior of marine organisms. He co-chairs the US Coral Reef Task Force’s Climate Change Working Group and has briefed and testified before the US Congress on climate change impacts. He is a Councillor for the International Society for Reef Studies and member and advisor to the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network.

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Open University of Sri Lanka.

My main areas of teaching and research and coastal hydrodynamics and sediment transport, coastal zone management, extreme events, water pollution and sustainable sanitation. 

I have also been involved in several inter-disciplinary intiatives including the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) project (www.loicz.org) and the establishment of the Master of Development Practice at the University of Peradeniya (http://www.pdn.ac.lk/arts/econ/mdp/index.htm).

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).

I am a project-related and research field botanist for the U.S. Forest Service specializing in plant taxonomy and plant ecology with an emphasis on conservation biology issues.

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.

I am a Ugandan, 40 years old with an M.Sc Dev Mgmt (Open University – UK). I am also a holder of a Bachelor’s degree in Forestry from Makerere University – Kampala. Since 2004, I have been working as a Programme Manager for Uganda Coalition for sustainable Development (UCSD), a local NGO Network aimed at increasing public participation and civil society network’s advocacy in order to influence and enhance implementation of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation on national, regional and International levels. Before then I worked as a Programme officer for JEEP, another local Ugandan NGO, where I was responsible for coordinating the Rio + 10 project – a Civil Society preparatory process for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (August – September 2002). I was part of the Uganda National Delegation to this Summit. Recently I have participated in the Cancun COP16 as an Observer, where I had particular interest in REDD and adaptation issues.