Dr. Michée A. Lachaud

Dr. Michée A. Lachaud Dr. Michée A. Lachaud Program Review Panelist Dr. Michée A. Lachaud is an Agricultural, Environmental, and Resource Economist who currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Agribusiness Program at Florida A&M University. He has served as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, Organization of American States, and…

Dr. Alexis Merdjanoff

Dr. Alexis Merdjanoff Dr. Alexis Merdjanoff Program Review Panelist Dr. Alexis Merdjanoff is an Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at New York University’s School of Global Public Health and Director of Research at the Center for Public Health Disaster Science. She is a public health sociologist who explores how population health is affected…

Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Mississippi State University

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Professor in the Department  of Meteorology at Penn State University Director of the Alliance for Education, Sciences, Engineering and Development in Africa (AESEDA) in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.

Former Senior Advisor to the head of the Office of Air and Radiation US EPA

Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Chief Scientist of DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)

Program Director, Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)
Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SBE/SES)
National Science Foundation

Social Science Deputy Program Manager

Cassandra Shivers Cassandra Shivers-Williams Social Science Deputy Program Manager Cassandra is a social scientist supporting NOAA’s Weather Program Office as the WPO Social Science Deputy Program Manager. Prior to supporting WPO, she was a Research Scientist at NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO) focused on understanding social and personal…

Harish Vasudevan

Budget and Financial Analyst

Harish Vasudevan Harish Vasudevan Budget and Financial Analyst Harish is a Cherokee Nation Business contractor in the NOAA Weather Program supporting WPO and its programs through analysis of budget expenditure and revenue components as a Budget/Financial Analyst. Prior to joining NOAA, Harish worked in the Books division at The National Geographic Society, in Washington D.C.,…

Christopher Spells

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Program Manager

Christopher (Chris) Spells provides support to the Weather Program Office (WPO) as a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Program Manager with the Hurricane Supplemental portfolio.