Climatologist Lara Hansen
She is currently chief scientist and executive director of EcoAdapt, a center for climate change adaptation innovation with the goal of creating a robust future in the face of climate change. At EcoAdapt she is also developing CAKE, the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange.
For much of the last decade Dr. Lara Hansen served on the Nobel Peace Prize-awarded Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
She has directed research on the biological effects of global change since 1990 on projects around the planet, from coral reefs to mountain glaciers, and is lead author of Buying Time: A User’s Manual for Building Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems.
She is currently chief scientist and executive director of EcoAdapt, a center for climate change adaptation innovation with the goal of creating a robust future in the face of climate change. At EcoAdapt she is also developing CAKE, the Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange.
Lara Hansen lives with her husband and son on Bainbridge Island. A dedicated low-carbon telecommuter, she presented on climate change to Conservation Northwest staff by teleconference at our annual 2009 staff retreat.
