Our Team

Project Staff

Lead Principal Investigators

Debra Knopman, PhD

Senior Principal Researcher, RAND Corporation

Klaus Keller, PhD

Professor of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University

Co-Investigators

Benjamin Hobbs, PhD

Director, Environment, Energy, Sustainability & Health Institute and Schad Professor of Environmental Management, The Johns Hopkins University

Melissa Finucane, PhD

Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist, RAND Corporation

Jordan Fischbach, PhD

MARISA Co-Program Manager for Science and Analysis
Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation

Robert Nicholas, PhD

Research Associate, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University

Senior Researchers

Arthur DeGaetano, PhD

Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University

Robert Lempert, PhD

Principal Physical Scientist, RAND Corporation

Co-Program Manager

Elizabeth Thornton

Co-Program Manager for Operations and Outreach
Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation

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: