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Lisa Dilling

Lisa Dilling is an interdisciplinary scholar who focuses on the energy transition, climate adaptation, decision making, the use of information, and science policy. She aims to improve the effectiveness of policies for climate change.[1] Dilling is Associate Chief Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, an environmental non-profit that works on climate change, clean air and public health, and supporting the ability of people and nature to thrive.

Lisa Dilling
Alma materPh.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
B.A. Harvard University
AwardsLeverhulme Visiting Professorship 2016-2017
Scientific career
Fieldsclimate change, decision making, science policy
InstitutionsNOAA
NCAR
University of Colorado Boulder
Websitehttps://www.colorado.edu/envs/lisa-dilling

Early life and education

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Born in Washington State, Dilling moved between the United States and Europe before college. Dilling graduated from the Menlo School in Atherton, California and went on to receive her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude.|[2] Dilling earned her Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara in biological sciences, where she worked with Alice Alldredge. [3] She went on to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).[4]

Career and research

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Lisa Dilling is known for her research on the usability of science in decision making, particularly in regard to managing climate changes.[1] Specific research topics include: the energy transition, urban and rural water systems, climate resiliency of cities and municipalities, carbon management, geoengineering, and climate adaptation.[4] Dilling studies how we make policy decisions about climate change, and focuses on the use of science in decision making for climate.[5] [6][7][8][9] [10] [11]

From 1995-2002 Dilling worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Office of Global Programs, managing a program on carbon cycle science research and collaborating across agencies in the U.S. Global Change Research Program. From 2002-2004 she worked at NCAR, and from 2004-2007 was a visiting fellow with CIRES.[4] Dilling was co-lead of the first State of the Carbon Cycle Report, also known as Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.2.[12]

From 2015 to 2023, Dilling was Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES),[4] and a member of the Center for Socio-Environmental Futures (C-SEF). From 2014 to 2021, she was director of the Western Water Assessment, a CU Boulder and NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) program that works with decision makers to improve the use of science in managing the impacts of climate variability and climate change on water resources.[13]

Dilling is Associate Chief Scientist/Vice President at the Environmental Defense Fund where she supports teams of scientists who produce cutting-edge research in service of protecting people and the planet. She is a member of the Board on Environmental Change and Society of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Awards and honors

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Publications

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Lisa Dilling has published numerous articles and a book in her years of work, the majority of which focuses on the use of science and decision making for climate risk . Her earlier work focused on how various factors like marine snow affected marine life, such as zooplankton, and can impact the ocean's ability to cycle carbon.[15] In the last two decades, Dilling has published several papers on carbon management,[16] climate adaptation on public lands,[17] geoengineering,[18] the use of tools in water management, stakeholder needs and building networks for adaptive capacity, and the dynamics of vulnerability.[19] Listed below are some of Dilling's most cited publications:

  • "Creating usable science: Opportunities and constraints for climate knowledge use and their implications for science policy," Global Environmental Change, 2011[20]
  • "Making Climate HOT," Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 2004.[21]
  • "Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science-Action Gap," chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society, 2011[22]
  • Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change, a book Dilling co-edited and published, 2007[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b "ENVS Lisa Dilling". www.colorado.edu/envs. 18 November 2015. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  2. ^ Dilling, Lisa (1989). "An ontogenetic study of the jaw mechanism and feeding modes in Amphiprion frenatus and A. polymnus". Harvard University.
  3. ^ Dilling, Lisa (March 1997). "Consumption and Fragmentation of Marine Snow by Euphausiids and Copepods". University of California, Santa Barbara.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Lisa DillingCIRES | Lisa Dilling". cires.colorado.edu/council-fellows/lisa-dilling. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  5. ^ Dilling, L; Daly, M; Travis, W; Ray, A; Wilhelmi, O (March 2023). "The role of adaptive capacity in incremental and transformative adaptation in three large U.S. urban water systems". Global Environmental Change. 79: 102649. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102649. ISSN 0959-3780. S2CID 256967594.
  6. ^ Dilling, L; Morss, R; Wilhelmi, O (September 2017). "Learning to Expect Surprise: Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Beyond". Journal of Extreme Events. 04 (3): 1771001. doi:10.1142/s2345737617710014. ISSN 2345-7376.
  7. ^ Averyt, Kristen; Derner, Justin D.; Dilling, Lisa; Guerrero, Rafael; Joyce, Linda; McNeeley, Shannon; McNie, Elizabeth; Morisette, Jeffrey; Ojima, Dennis (May 2018). "Regional Climate Response Collaboratives: Multi-Institutional Support for Climate Resilience". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99 (5): 891–898. Bibcode:2018BAMS...99..891A. doi:10.1175/bams-d-17-0183.1. ISSN 0003-0007.
  8. ^ Wibeck, Victoria; Hansson, Anders; Anshelm, Jonas; Asayama, Shinichiro; Dilling, Lisa; Feetham, Pamela M.; Hauser, Rachel; Ishii, Atsushi; Sugiyama, Masahiro (2017-09-20). "Making sense of climate engineering: a focus group study of lay publics in four countries". Climatic Change. 145 (1–2): 1–14. Bibcode:2017ClCh..145....1W. doi:10.1007/s10584-017-2067-0. ISSN 0165-0009.
  9. ^ Smith, Rebecca; Kasprzyk, Joseph; Dilling, Lisa (2017-09-01). "Participatory Framework for Assessment and Improvement of Tools (ParFAIT): Increasing the impact and relevance of water management decision support research". Environmental Modelling & Software. 95: 432–446. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.05.004. ISSN 1364-8152.
  10. ^ Dilling, Lisa; Lemos, Maria Carmen (May 2011). "Creating usable science: Opportunities and constraints for climate knowledge use and their implications for science policy". Global Environmental Change. 21 (2): 680–689. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.11.006. ISSN 0959-3780.
  11. ^ Dilling, Lisa; Doney, Scott C.; Edmonds, Jae; Gurney, Kevin R.; Harriss, Robert; Schimel, David; Stephens, Britton; Stokes, Gerald (November 2003). "The Role of Carbon Cycle Observations and Knowledge in Carbon Management". Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 28 (1): 521–558. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.207.1211. doi:10.1146/annurev.energy.28.011503.163443. ISSN 1543-5938.
  12. ^ "State of the Carbon Cycle Report" (PDF). www.globalcarbonproject.org. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
  13. ^ Combest-Friedman, Chelsea; Nierenberg, Claudia; Simpson, Caitlin (2019-08-03). "Building a learning network:reflections from the RISA program". Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 39: 160–166. Bibcode:2019COES...39..160C. doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2019.10.006. ISSN 1877-3435. S2CID 213419634.
  14. ^ "Knauss Fellowship Programs". seagrant.noaa.gov. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  15. ^ Dilling, Lisa; Wilson, Jacqueline; Steinberg, Deborah; Alldredge, Alice (1998-09-03). "Feeding by the euphausiid Euphausia pacifica and the copepod Calanus pacificus on marine snow". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 170: 189–201. Bibcode:1998MEPS..170..189D. doi:10.3354/meps170189. ISSN 0171-8630.
  16. ^ Dilling, Lisa; Doney, Scott C.; Edmonds, Jae; Gurney, Kevin R.; Harriss, Robert; Schimel, David; Stephens, Britton; Stokes, Gerald (November 2003). "The Role of Carbon Cycle Observations and Knowledge in Carbon Management". Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 28 (1): 521–558. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.207.1211. doi:10.1146/annurev.energy.28.011503.163443. ISSN 1543-5938.
  17. ^ Ellenwood, Mikaela S.; Dilling, Lisa; Milford, Jana B. (2012-03-22). "Managing United States Public Lands in Response to Climate Change: A View From the Ground Up". Environmental Management. 49 (5): 954–967. doi:10.1007/s00267-012-9829-2. ISSN 0364-152X. PMID 22437431. S2CID 18647603.
  18. ^ Dilling, Lisa; Hauser, Rachel (2013-07-16). "Governing geoengineering research: why, when and how?". Climatic Change. 121 (3): 553–565. Bibcode:2013ClCh..121..553D. doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0835-z. ISSN 0165-0009. S2CID 12862891.
  19. ^ "Lisa Dilling - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  20. ^ Dilling, Lisa; Lemos, Maria Carmen (May 2011). "Creating usable science: Opportunities and constraints for climate knowledge use and their implications for science policy". Global Environmental Change. 21 (2): 680–689. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.11.006. ISSN 0959-3780.
  21. ^ Moser, Susanne C.; Dilling, Lisa (December 2004). "Making Climate HOT". Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. 46 (10): 32–46. Bibcode:2004ESPSD..46j..32M. doi:10.1080/00139150409605820. ISSN 0013-9157. S2CID 153492974.
  22. ^ Oxford handbook of climate change and society. Dryzek, John S., 1953-, Norgaard, Richard B., 1943-, Schlosberg, David. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN 9780199566600. OCLC 694395525.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  23. ^ Moser, Susanne C.; Dilling, Lisa, eds. (2007). Creating a Climate for Change. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511535871. ISBN 9780511535871.
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