Current CAP/RISA Teams

The CAP/RISA Program supports research projects that address climate-sensitive issues of concern to decision makers and policy planners at a regional level. There are currently 13 active CAP/RISA teams across the country.

Alaska: Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP)
Program Manager: Alison Hayden, abhayden@alaska.edu
Carolinas: Carolinas Collaborative on Climate, Health, and Equity (C3HE)
Program Manager: Kalyn Rosenberg, krosenb@ncsu.edu
Central Midwest: Central Midwest Climate Opportunities & Learning (CM Co-LEARN) NEW
Program Manager: Sarah Helmer, sarah-helmer@uiowa.edu
Great Lakes: Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments (GLISA)
Program Manager: Jenna Jorns, jljorns@umich.edu
Intermountain West: Western Water Assessment (WWA)
Program Manager: Benet Duncan, benet.duncan@colorado.edu
Mid-Atlantic: Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (MARISA)
Program Manager: Lena Easton-Calabria, leaston@rand.org
Pacific Islands:
Pacific Research on Island Solutions for Adaptation (Pacific RISA)
Program Manager: Mari Ching, mari.ching@asu.edu

Pacific Northwest: Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative (NCRC)
Program Manager: Zack Thill, zthill@uw.edu
South Central: Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP)
Program Manager: Caylah Cruickshank, caylahc@ou.edu
Southwest: Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS)
Program Manager: Stacie Reece, sreece@arizona.edu
Urban Northeast: Consortium on Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN)
Program Manager: Dan Bader, dab2145@columbia.edu
US Caribbean: Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network (CCAN)
Lead PI: Pablo Mendez Lazaro, pablo.mendez1@upr.edu
West: California-Nevada Applications Program (CNAP)
Program Manager: Ariel Choinard, ariel.choinard@dri.edu

Learn more about our teams by viewing the 2021-2026 Team Introduction webinar recordings at our GoToStage Channel.