Leadership Grant

Climate Adaptation Strategies in the Puget Sound

40,000 awarded to American Rivers in
Fellow(s): Lara Hansen
Topic(s): Climate Change, Energy Resources & Access

To hire Lara Hansen as a consultant to work jointly with American Rivers and the Sierra Club on implementing climate change adaptation measures in the Puget Sound region. Lara will be the resource person on climate adaptation strategies, pulling together the concurrent efforts and complementary expertise of these two national organizations towards on-the-ground adaptation measures and policy/management change. American Rivers and the Sierra Club each have active campaigns focusing on climate change, and protection and restoration of species and habitats, in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. Lara Hansen will provide critical expertise to each organization on climate change adaptation measures, forming a ‘hub’ of information on the latest adaptation science. This work will help to refine specific ongoing campaigns of each organization allowing them to increase their overall effectiveness in protecting rivers and lands in the Puget Sound.

Meet the Fellows on this Project

Lara Hansen

Lara Hansen

1995 Fellow
Dr. Lara Hansen is the Chief Scientist and Executive Director of EcoAdapt, an organization created to help develop the field of climate change adaptation by creating a network to develop the science of adaptation, build capacity to expand...