Contributors

Brittany Finucci

Fisheries Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

Fisheries Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Brit is a fisheries scientist working primarily in marine ecology, conservation, and fisheries. She has a particular interest in chondrichthyans (sharks, rays, and chimaeras) and the deep sea.

Ben Hayes

Director, Centre for Animal Science, The University of Queensland

Director, Centre for Animal Science, The University of Queensland Professor Hayes has extensive research experience in genetic improvement of livestock, crop, pasture and aquaculture species, with a focus on integration of genomic information into breeding programs, including leading many large scale projects which have successfully implemented genomic technologies in livestock and cropping industries. Author of more than 300 journal papers, including in Nature Genetics, Nature Reviews Genetics, and Science, contributing to statistical methodology for genomic, microbiome and metagenomic profile predictions, quantitative genetics including knowledge of genetic mechanisms underlying complex traits, and development of bioinformatics pipelines for sequence analysis. Clarivate Highly cited researcher.

Beatriz Monge-Sanz

Senior Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Oxford

Senior Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Oxford I am an expert in stratospheric processes and their links with weather and climate. I am a senior researcher at AOPP in the Physics Department and also affiliated to the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS). My research interests include understanding the role of stratospheric mechanisms for weather and climate prediction, as well as the use and development of alternative techniques to include such mechanisms in state-of-the-art Earth System Models. I have previously worked as a Senior Researcher at the University of Reading and at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. I keep active collaborations with ECMWF, where I also worked for several years on model improvements for the stratosphere and assessment of corresponding impacts at different timescales. Before that I obtained a Marie Curie personal Fellowship that I carried out at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), right after being a NERC Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. As part of WCRP activities, since 2012 I lead a group of top international scientists working on Brewer-Dobson Circulation research for the SPARC Reanalyses Intercomparison Project (SRIP). I have HE teaching experience at graduate and undergraduate courses, have designed and taught courses on “Climate and Weather Prediction Models”, “Intelligent Instrumentation” and “The Ozone Layer”, among other topics.

Brian Strickland

Senior Instructor in Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Senior Instructor in Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus I am an emergency physician based in Colorado, with a background in delivering high-quality medical care in some of the world's most remote locations. My clinical experience spans from the Alaskan arctic to the tropical island of Saipan, with multiple periods of volunteering in clinics located in Nepal's Khumbu Valley and Peru's Sacred Valley. This journey has broadened my medical expertise and enriched my understanding of diverse healthcare systems. My passion for altitude medicine stems from a Wilderness Medicine fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, an experience that profoundly shaped my career path. This specialized training, coupled with significant clinical exposure in the high-altitude regions of Peru and Nepal, has deepened my interest and expertise in this field. Currently, I am leading multiple research projects focused on high-altitude pathology and treatment. These initiatives are aimed at enhancing our understanding of altitude-related illnesses and developing innovative treatment strategies through unique investigational techniques and evidence-based medical practice.

Bronwyn Hradsky

Research Fellow in Ecology, The University of Melbourne

Research Fellow in Ecology, The University of Melbourne I'm an ecologist who works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Much of my research aims to improve the management of introduced predators and fire to help protect Australia's native wildlife. I work closely with land management agencies to identify priority research questions, and conduct collaborative, landscape-scale experiments, generally in the forests and healthlands of south-western Victoria. I also develop simulation tools to help land managers predict the outcomes of their management decisions.

Beth Osnes

Professor of Theatre and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

Professor of Theatre and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder Beth Osnes PhD, is a Professor of Theatre and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado. She is a theatre and performance studies artist/scholar who is active in applied performance and creative climate communication. She engages in performance to co-author and actualize an equitable, survivable, and thrive-able future for all life and the ecosystems upon which life depends. Her most recent collaboration, Side by Side, is an art-science approach to youth engagement for climate communication in relationship with local birds. This project features award-winning films of large-scale bird puppets of numerous Colorado species. Side by Side was awarded major funding through the National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning from 2023-2027. Her most recent creative work is The Butterfly Affect, a performance experience designed for participants to travel through a butterfly’s metamorphosis from egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, to butterfly as a way of receiving guidance for change from the natural world. With her collaborator Max Boykoff, she explores climate comedy through teaching and scholarship. Open Source Materials for a climate musical by Osnes, Shine, are available for engaging youth in authoring climate and energy solutions. She co-developed Enacting Climate, an online open-source collection of climate-related tools and activities, for student learning and climate action.