ENST Brown Bag - The Fourth National Climate Assessment: the Story behind the Report from Four Colgate Alumni

Four Colgate alumni who contributed to the National Climate Assessment, released in November, share how the report came to be and their views on how their findings were announced. 

Ellen Mecray '90 

Director, Eastern Regional Climate Services, Center for Weather and Climate, U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA

David Reidmiller '01

Director, National Climate Assessment at the U.S. Global Change Research Program

Dan Barrie '05

Program Manager with NOAA's Climate Program Office and NOAA representative to USGCRP National Climate Assessment Steering Committee

Natalie Bennett '16

Adaptation and Assessment Analyst at the U.S. Global Change Research Program