
Summit Planning Committee
The Summit scope and program was developed by planning committee members well versed in climate adaptation and vulnerability assessment activities:
- Shere Abbott, Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Peter Backlund, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- David Behar, Water Utility Climate Alliance
- Rosina Bierbaum, University of Michigan
- Maria Blair, Council on Environmental Quality
- Joyce Coffee, Chicago Department of Environment
- Ruth DeFries, Columbia University
- David Evans, Noblis Inc.
- Jack Fellows, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
- Chris Field, Stanford University
- Adam Freed, New York City Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability
- Kathy Jacobs, University of Arizona
- Tom Karl, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
- Bob Kates, Independent Scholar
- Jerry Mellilo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
- Ed Miles, University of Washington
- Frank Nutter, Reinsurance Association of America
- Richard Richels, Electric Power Research Institute
- Cynthia Rosenzweig, Columbia University
- Brad Udall, Western Water Assessment
- Tom Wilbanks, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Don Wuebbles, University of Illinois
- Gary Yohe, Weslyan University