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
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
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…
Christopher (Chris) Spells provides support to the Weather Program Office (WPO) as an Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Program Manager with the Hurricane Supplemental portfolio.
Valbona Kunkel VALBONA KUNKEL JTTI Program Coordinator Dr. Kunkel is a contractor working as the JTTI Program Coordinator at the Weather Program Office (WPO) and previously supported the Research-to-Applications (R2X) Program as a Research to Operations Program Coordinator. Prior to WPO, Dr. Kunkel supported the transition of the models from a research system to a…
Kristina earned her B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder and her M.P.S. (Master of Professional Science) in Tropical Marine Ecology from the University of Miami.