Professor Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, chair of the Department of  Geography at the University of Vermont, has been named regional lead of the northeast chapter of the fourth National Climate Assessment.

Dupigny-Giroux was selected from nearly 200 experts across the United States nominated by her peers to serve as author on NCA4. 

In a letter to Dupigny-Giroux, David Reidmiller, director of the National Climate Assessment, described her as having “a unique set of qualifications, experiences, and perspectives that will elevate the utility of the Northeast Chapter -- and the NCA4 as a whole.” 

The National Climate Assessment is the U.S. Government’s premier resource for articulating the risks posed to the nation by climate change, as well as what is being and can be done to minimize those risks.  It is an inter-agency effort, bringing together experts from not only the 13 federal agencies of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, but the broader federal government, and hundreds of experts in the academic, non-profit, and private sectors. 

Dupigny-Giroux is also the State Climatologist for Vermont. Her work takes her across Vermont to assist colleagues in State Agencies (transportation, emergency management, agriculture, forestry and legislators) to help plan for and adapt to climate change. She is an expert in floods, droughts and severe weather and the ways in which these affect Vermont's landscape and people.

Dupigny-Giroux is profiled in the current issue of Directions magazine.