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Susanne Moser is Director and Principal Researcher of Susanne Moser Research & Consulting in Santa Cruz, California, and a Research Associate at the University of California-Santa Cruz Institute for Marine Sciences. Previously, she served as a Research Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado; was a research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, worked for the Heinz Center in Washington, DC; and served as staff scientist for climate change at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Her current work focuses on adaptation to climate change, resilience, decision support, and effective climate change communication in support of social change.

Dr. Moser is a geographer by training (Ph.D. 1997, Clark University), with social science research interests over the last 15 years in the causes, vulnerability, impacts, and adaptive responses to climate change, especially with regard to coastal areas, human health, and forest communities. She is particularly interested in the effective communication between science, decision-makers and the public. Dr. Moser contributed to Working Group II of the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report, and has advised former Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Project on climate change communication. She is a GECHS Research Associate and co-editor with Lisa Dilling (University of Colorado-Boulder) on a ground-breaking 2007 anthology on climate change communication, called Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change (Cambridge University Press). Her work has been recognized through fellowships in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, the UCAR Leadership Academy, Kavli Frontiers of Science Program, and the Donella Meadows Leadership Program.