Our Team
Our team includes personnel from the RAND Corporation, Pennsylvania State University, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Morgan State University, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Project Staff
Principal Investigator

Krista Romita Grocholski, Ph.D.
Physical Scientist, RAND Corporation
Program Manager

Lena Easton-Calabria
Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation
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 Corporation

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 Corporation

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.
Engineer, RAND Corporation
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