I have been broadly engaged in the field of climate change adaptation for almost two decades, working in the United States and internationally. I've contributed to a variety of papers, books and reports, including co-authoring "Climate Savvy: Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World." Areas of particular interest include structured decision making, particularly decision making under uncertainty (who doesn’t love uncertainty??); integrating climate considerations into existing planning and management processes (HCP, EIA, ESA, CMSP, CZM, NEPA, and many other exciting acronyms); and improving the use of scientific information in policy, planning, and regulatory decisions.My approach to connecting science with management and policy is to start with what people do and how they do it, and then bring science into that process. How many times have you heard folks say that “build it and they will come” doesn’t work, or complain that there are heaps of science portals and frameworks that just don’t get used? Rather than expecting people to come to the science, I help to bring science to people. There's plenty of research out there supporting this approach, and I don't see why those of us from the natural sciences shouldn't use a little research from other fields...I have a PhD in marine ecology, but when environmental problems seem daunting I call on my undergraduate degree in geology for a long-term perspective that keeps me chipper.Specialties: climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation; research; synthesis; presentation; facilitation; instructional development and design; technical and non-technical writing and editing; toxicology; ecology; marine and coastal planning; communication; decision support; tool development