Climate Impacts Group

We are excited to share progress on the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative, including two new hires to support the program and a newly-launched web presence! The Resilience Collaborative is a program housed at the Climate Impacts Group that brings together 10 community and academic partners and is funded by a grant from NOAA.

Drs. Rishi Sugla and Zackery Thill joined the Climate Impacts Group earlier this month, and will be primarily focused on supporting the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative. Sugla will bring thought leadership and coordination to the Resilience Collaborative as he advances the theory and practice of climate services provision to frontline communities. Thill will help to manage the overall operations of the Resilience Collaborative, while supporting collaborative teams of researchers, decision makers and frontline communities to achieve more than the sum of their individual efforts. You can learn more about our latest team members below.

A new webpage describing the work of the Resilience Collaborative is live! Here, you can learn more about the program, our partners and our plans for the Collaborative. You’ll also find a link to a recent webinar, led by Jason Vogel and Jennifer Allen, providing an overview of the Collaborative to our NOAA RISA partners. We will continue to build out a web presence for the Resilience Collaborative over the coming months.

There will be more exciting news coming out of the Collaborative in the coming months –  stay tuned!

Rishi Sugla is the frontline community climate resilience scientist at the UW Climate Impacts Group. Rishi’s professional mission is to build justice-centered climate adaptation plans co-created with frontline communities. Rishi has a deep interest in working at the intersection of science, storytelling, social justice, and technology. Rishi received his Ph.D. in Earth Science from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Email: rsugla@uw.edu

Website page: Rishi Sugla

Zackery Thill is the program integration specialist at the UW Climate Impacts Group. Zack’s professional mission is to help researchers, communities, and decision-makers address complex societal and environmental problems by co-producing knowledge that will contribute to a more equitable and resilient future. Zack received his master’s degree in Human Ecology from Lund University, Sweden and his Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of Oregon.

Email: zthill@uw.edu

Website page: Zackery Thill