Our Team
Our team includes personnel from RAND, Pennsylvania State University, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Morgan State University, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Project Staff
Director and Lead Principal Investigator
Krista Romita Grocholski, Ph.D.
Physical Scientist, RAND
Managing Director and Co-Investigator
Lena Easton-Calabria
Policy Analyst, RAND
Lead Investigators
Arthur DeGaetano, Ph.D.
Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University
Molly Mitchell, Ph.D.
Marine Scientist at the Center for Coastal Resources Management, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
David Rounce, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
James G. Hunter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University
Robert Nicholas, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
Benjamin Zaitchik, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Co-Investigators
Tamara Dubowitz, Sc.D.
Senior Policy Researcher, RAND
Jordan Fischbach, Ph.D.
Director of Planning and Policy Research, The Water Institute of the Gulf
Benjamin Hobbs, Ph.D.
Director, Environment, Energy, Sustainability & Health Institute and Schad Professor of Environmental Management, The Johns Hopkins University
Debra Knopman, Ph.D.
Adjunct Engineer, RAND
Jaime Madrigano, Sc.D.
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Costa Samaras, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Affiliated Faculty in the Energy Science, Technology and Policy Program at Carnegie Mellon University
Michelle Miro, Ph.D.
Senior Information Scientist, RAND
Linnea Warren May
Policy Researcher, RAND
Coastal Climate Extension Specialist
Kelsey Ruckert
Coastal Climate Extension Specialist, The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Researchers
Rui Shi
Doctoral student, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Bianca Corpuz
Doctoral Student, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Sanjib Sharma, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
Courtney Cooper, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral scholar at the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
Suhail Mahmud, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral scholar at the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
Marissa Webber
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Collaborator
Klaus Keller, Ph.D.
Hodgson Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College
Advisory Committee
MARISA has established an Advisory Committee comprised of academic, business, community, resource management, and agency representatives to provide feedback on research relevance across the region and advise the team with an external perspective on potential barriers and opportunities. Current members of the Advisory Committee include:
Kristin Baja
Climate Resilience Officer at Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN)
Leon Clarke
Research Director at Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland
Brian Gildemeyer
Exelon/PEPCO, Senior Emergency Preparedness Administrator NERC
Genevieve LaRouche
Head, Chesapeake Bay Field Office, US FWS Region 5
Ellen Mecray
NOAA Regional Climate Services Director-Eastern Division
Susanne Moser
Susanne Moser Research and Consulting
Lisa Ragain
Principal Water Resources Planner at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG)
Julie Reichert-Nguyen
Natural Resources Specialist and Chesapeake Bay Program Climate Resiliency Workgroup Coordinator, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office