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

Lead Principal Investigator and Director

Krista Romita Grocholski, Ph.D.

Senior Physical Scientist, RAND

Principal Investigator and Managing Director

Lena Easton-Calabria

Senior Analyst, RAND

Lead Investigators

Arthur DeGaetano, Ph.D.

Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell 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

Jordan Fischbach, Ph.D.

Director of Planning and Policy Research, The Water Institute of the Gulf

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

Co-Investigators

Tamara Dubowitz, Sc.D.

Senior Policy Researcher, RAND

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.

Adjunct 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