Speakers

Anh Cao is a PhD candidate in the University of Tokyo, working on adaptation trends in practices in Asian deltaic coastal cities and identifying adaptation measures against flooding induced by sea level rise.

I am an internationally recognized expert in using computer-based models of Earth's climate system to investigate past climate change and climate variability. I am in the IPCC Working Group and Co-chair of the Community Earth System Model Paleoclimate Working Group.

Phil Thompson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Director of the University of Hawaii Sea level Center.

Adam Parris is an interdisciplinary researcher and knowledge broker with experience developing, applying, and translating science for numerous US states, cities, and local communities.

Originally from Lisbon, Portugal, Ricardo has been practicing as a landscape architect since 2006.

Felipe is a geographer who acts as City Information Director at Instituto Pereira Passos – IPP, Rio de Janeiro city’s autarchy responsible for data, information and knowledge management.

Erin Derrington is an environmental science and policy specialist who focuses on natural resource management planning and project implementation.

I am a PhD Student at the Asian School of the Environment and Earth Observatory of Singapore.

Currently working as Professor at the Institute of Water and Flood Management, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, I specialise in river and coastal processes.

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I lead the Ice & Climate group. My research focuses on understanding how changes in climate leads to changes in ice sheets and glaciers.