The Resilient Coastal Communities Team

The Resilient Coastal Communities Project brings together a distinguished interdisciplinary team with a track record of engaged research and advocacy, informed by a deep commitment to environmental and climate justice. RCCP is a partnership between the Columbia Climate School and the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance. 

Core Team

Victoria Sanders, Climate and Health Programs Manager, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance

Paul Gallay, Project Leader & Senior Research Associate, Center for Sustainable Urban Development; Faculty member, Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development

Jacqueline M Klopp, Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD) Faculty member, Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development.

Bernadette Baird-Zars, Assistant Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University

Dr. Michael A. Petriello, Interdisciplinary Environmental Social Scientist 

Eunice Ko, Deputy Director, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance

Hellas Lee, Masters in Climate and Society - Research Associate

Leel Moka Dias, Undergraduate Student Research Associate

Pavithra Selvakumar, Postdoctoral Fellow 

Sheehan Moore, Postdoctoral Fellow

Gildon Smith, Graduate Research Associate 

Advisory Board

Erica Avrami,  James Marston Fitch  Assistant Professor  of Historic Preservation,  Columbia Graduate School of  Architecture, Planning  and Preservation (GSAPP)

Jacqueline Austermann,  Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES)

Christian V. Braneon, Co-Director, Environmental Justice/Climate Just Cities Network

Elizabeth Cook, Assistant Professor in Environmental Science, Barnard College

Michael Gerrard,  Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional  Practice, Columbia Law  School

Joachim Goes,  Lamont Research Professor, LDEO

Karenna Gore,  Founder and Executive Director, Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary

Radley Horton, Lamont Research Professor, LDEO. Faculty member, Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development

Klaus Jacob, Special Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO). 

Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, CSUD adviser. Faculty member, Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development

Nilda Mesa, Director, Urban Sustainability and Equity Planning Program, CSUD

Walter Meyer, Principal Urban Designer, Local Office Landscape Architects 

Melissa Miles, Executive Director, New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance

Kate Orff, Professor & Director, Urban Design Program, GSAPP. Faculty Director, Center for Resilient Cities & Landscapes, GSAPP 

Thaddeus Pawlowski, Managing Director, Center for Resilient Cities & Landscapes, GSAPP

Dorothy Peteet, Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, LDEO. Adjunct Professor, DEES

Maureen E. Raymo, Co-Founding Dean, Columbia Climate School (CCS); Director, LDEO

Andrew Revkin, Director, Initiative on Communication Innovation and Impact, CCS 

John Scialdone, Senior Staff Associate, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

Adam Sobel, Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia School of Engineering

Ariam Torres Cordero, Assistant Professor of Planning, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Melissa Tier, PhD Candidate, Princeton School of Public & International Affairs

Margie Turrin, Senior Staff Associate, LDEO

Judith S. Weis, Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University

Beizhan Yan, Lamont Associate Research Professor, LDEO

Dan Zarrilli, Special Advisor on Climate and Sustainability, Columbia University

Alumni

Hannah Su-An Lin, Graduate Research Assistant, Masters in Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School

Aya Morris, Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher, Massey University

Lexi Scanlon, Graduate Research Assistant, Masters in Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School

Erin Cooper, Student Research Associate

Kyle Wire, Research Associate, Urban Planner

Robert Rosso, Masters in Public Adminstration - Research Associate

Shagun Kar, Masters in Climate and Society - Research Associate

Annel Hernandez, Lecturer in International and Public Affairs, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs

Hugo Sarmiento, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning Program, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Amelia Ding, Undergraduate Student Research Associate

Contact

Project Lead: Paul Gallay
Senior Staff Associate III; Lecturer, Climate.  

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