Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States

September 1, 2026

Melissa A. Kenney, Robert E. Kopp, Constantine Samaras, Marina Alberti, Sonia Y. Angell, Jennifer Burney, Colin Cunliff, J. T. Duffy-Anderson, Laura West Fischer, Serita D. Frey, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Peter H. Howard, Alessandra Jerolleman, Christine J. Kirchhoff, Elizabeth A. Koebele, Natalie M. Mahowald, Nicole Misarti, Dharshani L. Pearson, Alexandra A. Phillips, A. R. Siders, Prabhjot K. Singh, Nicholas G. Smith, Lida T. Teneva, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Jeffrey J. Volenec, Kofi Akamani, Alisa J. Alexander, Claire E. Anderson, J. G. Arbuckle, Maximilian Auffhammer, Christopher W. Avery, Shalanda H. Baker, Deborah Balk, Michele Barbato, Patrick L. Barnard, Alexander B. Basaraba, Dominic Bednar, Jesse E. Bell, D. Bennett Gayle, Laprisha Berry Daniels, Darrian Bertrand, John E. T. Bistline, Corey L. Brelsfoard, Tania Briceno, Maxine Burkett, Michael Burnham, John A. Callahan, Clare E. B. Cannon, Courtney Carothers, Rebecca H. Carter, Max Cawley, J. Mijin Cha, Howard H. Chang, Michael H. Chang, Oriana S. Chegwidden, Kai Chen, Brian S. Cheng, Guangqing Chi, Eric K. Chu, Rachel Cleetus, Anna Connor, Amelia A. Cook, Dontá Council, Kevin R. Cromar, Katherine J. Curtis, John J. Daigle, Christopher DeLyser Roney, Simone J. Domingue, John E. Drake, Kristie L. Ebi, Emile H. Elias, Neal L. Fann, Erica Fleishman, Elliott T. Gall, Eliza Ghitis, Elisabeth A. Gilmore, Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Daniel Grafton, S. A. Gray, Roger B. Griffis, Nancy B. Grimm, Antonia Hadjimichael, Xueying Han, Jamie A. Haverkamp, Jeremy J. Hess, Paul F. Hessburg, Kristen Averyt Hinton, David M. Hondula, Bryan Hubbell, Nathan Hultman, Cassandra Jean, Sikina Jinnah, Jeremiah X. Johnson, Steven Mana’oakamai Johnson, Victoria A. Johnson, Kristal Jones, P. Ozge Kaplan, Samuel Kay, Jesse M. Keenan, Ladd Keith, Heather H. Kim, Patrick L. Kinney, Steven F. Koller, Matthew A. Konfirst, Ann Kosmal, Meade B. Krosby, W. O. Lamp, Kevin Lanza, Joshua Lappen, Jan E. Leach, Chia-Ying Lee, Flavio Lehner, Yishen Li, Lindsay A. Luchinsky, Katharine J. Mach, Julie Maldonado, Sparkle L. Malone, Amelia A. M. Marchand, Elizabeth Marino, Ezra M. Markowitz, Eric R. Masanet, Guillaume S. Mauger, Christine L. May, Kathryn McConnell, Pamela McElwee, Michael Mendez, Ariane Middel, Stephanie K. Mladinich, Renato Molina, Nicholas Nassikas, Roshanak Nateghi, Robert Newman, Megan E. O’Rourke, Renee Obringer, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Emily B. Osborne, Alexander (Sascha) Petersen, Benjamin L. Preston, Jagadeesh Puvvula, Marilyn N. Raphael, Crystal L. Raymond, Kevin A. Reed, Katharine L. Ricke, James Rising, Katherine S. Rocci, Bernice R. Rosenzweig, Stacia Ryder, Brett F. Sanders, Matthew R. Sanderson, Rachel E. Schattman, N. A. Seeteram, Linda Shi, Lauren Sidner, Samantha A. Siedlecki, Deepti Singh, Rolf E. Sonnerup, Caiti Steele, Eric Tate, Jonathan R. Thompson, Peter Thompson, Lynée L. Turek-Hankins, Nicola Ulibarri, Paul A. Ullrich, Chenghao Wang, Melissa Ward, Melissa Ward Jones, Cavin Ward-Caviness, Jessica C. Whitehead, Michael T. Wilson, Richelle L. Winkler, Adrienne M. Wootten, George Xian, Georgine G. Yorgey, Abigail M. York, Emily J. Zuetell