Anthony (Tony) Gardella Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Contributes to a variety of climate impact/risk analyses across sectors and scales: - 2022 Massachusetts Climate Assessment "https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-climate-change-assessment"- US EPA Framework for Evaluating Damages and Impacts (FrEDI) "https://github.com/USEPA/FrEDI"- Puget Sound Climate Future Scenarios ProjectAlso contributes to policy and economic analyses in public health and the environment.

• Developed R statistical package: Built custom R package to automate statistical methods of model validation and benchmarking to analyze the output of a global Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) in support of consequential lifecycle analysis of US Federal biofuel policies. • Developed model/data evaluation dashboard: Built visual model evaluation dashboard using R and Tableau, comparing energy, agricultural, and geospatial land use data products against Global IAM output for model benchmarking and model development in support of US Federal biofuel policy analysis

Tony Gardella is a M.S. student at SEAS with a focus on Environmental Policy and a Master of Applied Economics student in the Department of Economics. He works as a Thesis Research student under Dr. Fischer and Dr. Moore. He explores how to analyze the impacts of policy in the face of the complex wildfire problem we face. Many policies are designed and analyzed to understand how they lower the risk of wildfire damages. Few are concerned with how the costs of wildfire are distributed and who are burdened with them. To address this issue, he uses an agent based modeling approach to understand how wildfire costs on homeowners at the WUI are distributed within a neighborhood, and how demographics may determine who are disproportionately burdened with these costs.

Greater Boston Area

PUBLICATIONSFer, I., Gardella, A. K., Shiklomanov, A. N., Campbell, E. E., Cowdery, E. M., De Kauwe, M. G., Desai, A., Duveneck, M. J., Fisher, J. B., Haynes, K. D., Hoffman, F. M., Johnston, M. R., Kooper, R., LeBauer, D. S., Mantooth, J., Parton, W. J., Poulter, B., Quaife, T., Raiho, A., … Dietze, M. C. (2020). Beyond Ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for Ecological Data‐Model Integration. Global Change Biology, 27(1), 13–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15409 PRESENTATIONSGardella, Anthony; et.al. “Key uncertainties in tropical forest carbon forecasting: Insights from a multimodel uncertainty analysis for Barro Colorado Island, Panama”, Presented at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting; August 2018.Gardella, Anthony; et.al. “A multi-model assessment of terrestrial biosphere model data needs”, Presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting; December , 2017Gardella, Anthony; et.al. “Modeling Community Cyber-Infrastructure Needs and Opportunities”, Presented and participated in panel discussion at Joint North American Carbon Program (NACP) and Ameriflux Principal Investigators Meeting; March, 2017. (Panel Discussion and Oral Presentation)• Leadership: Led weekly developer meetings across teams at multiple National Labs and University Labs• Project management: Managed Github project tools and maintained website• Wrote yearly NSF grant project update reports• Wrote wrapper functions, in R, for automated calibration, execution, and analysis of Terrestrial Biosphere Models • Wrote technical documentation for platform code and developed user tutorials• Developed generalized, automated atmospheric and terrestrial data ingestion pipeline • Developed batch simulation and testing pipelines for QA/QC of production code

Fenway, Boston

• Urban Village Plan of Fenway: Researcher, contributor, and editor for plan outlining neighborhood vision for smart and sustainable development. Drafted entire section on open space vision and forthcoming policies that will affect environmental health. • Research: Researched, created, and maintained database on neighborhood real estate by aggregating data from Massachusetts Land Records. Used to understand property trends in terms of value and ownership to support initiatives for affordable housing. • Fenway neighborhood committee: Member and contributor to Housing and Open Space Committee groups discussing plans of action to amend Inclusionary Development Policy (IDP) and develop a Community Center. • Community outreach and recruitment team: Recruited community members for grassroots community groups including Transportation, Open space, Housing, and Institutional Impact groups. • Event planning committee: Assistant planner. Organized and helped run Fenway Health Fair, Annual Ball, and Annual Meeting. • Administrative: Administrative assistant. Performed and optimized copying, answering of phones, sending emails, and other administrative workflows.

Greater San Diego Area

• Developed sensitivity to cultural and language diversity through building learning curriculum for adults learning English as a second language. Foreign students represented of 5 continents. • Honed teaching skills through instructing and tutoring English language learners.

Master'S Degree, Applied Economics

Master Of Science - Ms, Environmental Policy

Bachelor'S Degree, Environmental Analysis And Policy