RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Christy Miller Hesed is an environmental anthropologist and conservation biologist whose work focuses on engaging diverse stakeholders in climate change adaptation planning. Located in rural Kansas, Christy is exploring the ways in which natural resource management decisions may impact rural and tribal communities' vulnerability to climate change. She has also coordinated two working groups to assess and report on climate science and adaptation knowledge and gaps for the grasslands in the North Central region of the United States.

Dr. Brian Carroll is a CIRES Research Scientist affiliated with the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL). His research answers questions about planetary boundary layer processes affecting air quality, wildfires, and more. As a member of the Atmospheric Remote Sensing group within CSL, he participates in field campaign planning and operations; Doppler lidar deployment, algorithms, and data analysis; and interprets the data alongside other instrumentation and models to answer science questions.

Nachiketa Acharya is an adept in statistical and machine learning models for climate science, focusing on sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting.His research centers on employing on Machine Learning based weather, sub-seasonal and seasonal prediction.He's a CIRES/University of Colorado Research Scientist III at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratories's Physical Sciences Laboratory.