Climate Measurements Center of Excellence Team

CMeC Team

Gillian Galford

Research Associate Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment

Jessica Balerna

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Renhui Lola Chen

Program Manager, Climate Measurements Center of Excellence

Hannah Peplinski

Staff Scientist

Research Working Group: Health

Jesse E. Bell

Health Research Working Group Co-lead, Climate Measurements Center of Excellence • Gund Affiliate • Claire M. Hubbard Professor of Water, Climate and Health Director, Water, Climate and Health Program, UNMC • Director, Water, Climate and Health, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska • Professor, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Expertise

Jeremy J. Hess

Health Research Working Group Co-lead, Climate Measurements Center of Excellence, University of Vermont • Gund Affiliate • Professor, Global Health, University of Washington • Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Washington • Adjunct Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington

Expertise

Sustainable Communities, Climate Change, Disaster resilience, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Heat, Wildfires

Shivendra Srivastava

Health Research Working Group Postdoctoral Fellow, Climate Measurements Center of Excellence

Expertise

Research Working Group: Food

Eric Roy

Associate Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment • Director of the Casella Center for Circular Economy and Sustainability

Expertise

Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences; Sustainability, Ecology, & Policy
Research: Nutrient biogeochemistry & management, Circular bioeconomy, Ecological engineering & design, Life cycle...

Kate Porterfield

Postdoctoral Fellow, Climate Impacts in Food Systems, Climate Measurements Center of Excellence

Expertise

Nutrient cycling, ecological engineering, sustainable agriculture, phosphorus recovery and reuse

Research Working Group: Water

Kate Brauman

Water Research Working Group Lead, Climate Measurements Center of Excellence • Gund Affiliate • Associate Director for Communications and Analysis, Global Water Security Center at The University at Alabama

Expertise

Water resources, ecohydrology, ecosystem services, hydrology, agricultural water use, water scarcity.