Incorporating Climate Change Model Projections into Ecological Risk Assessments to Help Inform Adaptive Risk Management Strategies

Alistair Boxall

Alistair Boxall is Professor in Environmental Science in the Environment Department and Director of the NERC-funded ECORISC Centre for Doctoral Training. Alistair’s research focuses on understanding emerging and future ecological and health risks posed by chemical contaminants in the natural environment. Alistair is a past member of the Defra Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances and past Chair of the Pharmaceutical Interest Group of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. He regularly advises national and international organizations on issues relating to chemical impacts on the environment and has published extensively on the detection, fate, effects and risks of emerging contaminants (including pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials and transformation products) in the natural environment.

Mariana Cains

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Mariana Cains is a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research working in the Weather Risks and Decisions in Society research group. Mariana's risk analysis interests (assessment, management and communication) have led her to research through human health and ecological risk of land use, the role of human factors in cyber security risk, integrating climate risk and resilience for regional adaptive management, and most recently, exploring how environmental risk information becomes useful to and used by decision makers. Mariana earned her B.S. in enviornmental toxicology from Wesetern Washington University. At Indiana University, she earned an M.S. and M.P.A in environmental science and policy and a Ph.D. in environmental risk assessment.

Wayne Landis

Western Washington University

Wayne Landis is a Research Professor Emeritus of the College of the Environment at Western Washington University. He graduated with a B.A. in Biology from Wake Forest University (1974), and his M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1979) in Zoology from Indiana University. Landis’ research teams have published over 200 papers, government technical reports and books, most with students as coauthors and many with undergraduate or graduate student as first authors. As of this summer he has been the advisor for 43 students that have received an M.S. in Environmental Sciences and has served on the M.S. or Ph.D. committees of 22 others at WWU and across the world. The lab is now conducting research on the risk assessment of microplastics, contaminants, synthetic biology, climate change and the use of risk assessment to evaluate resource damage and remediation as part of CERCLA.

Sophie Mentzel

Norwegian Institute of Water Research

Sophie Mentzel is an environmental scientist holding a Ph.D. in Ecotoxicology from the University of Oslo, Norway. Mentzel was an Early Stage Researcher of the European Innovative Training Network ECORISK2050 at the Norwegian Institute of Water Research (NIVA). During her Ph.D., she developed a probabilistic model (Bayesian network) for supporting the risk assessment of pesticides under future climate and agricultural scenarios. This novel approach was recognized by the journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, which highlighted her first Ph.D. paper as an Exceptional Paper of 2022. Furthermore, she participated in the SETAC Pellston workshop on global climate change and risk assessment and is the lead author of the Great Barrier Reef case study paper.

Jannicke Moe

Norwegian Institute for Water Research

Jannicke Moe is a Senior Research Scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), section for Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment. She holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Oslo (2001) and had a postdoctoral stay at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since her employment at NIVA in 2004, she has been involved in a series of European Union research projects aiming at scientific support for ecosystem-based management under the European Water Framework Directive, working on large-scale biological data management, indicator development and assessment. She was involved in the recent European Innovative Training Network ECORISK2050, leading the work package Risk & Mitigation. As a member the European Environment Agency’s Topic Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystems, she oversees the reporting and assessment of biology data from surface waters across Europe. Her current research focuses on novel approaches to support environmental risk assessment, including Bayesian network modeling. She serves as Senior Editor of the SETAC journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management.

Rik Oldenkamp

Vrije Univeristeit

Rik Oldenkamp's research is devoted to the development, evaluation and application of predictive models to assess the environmental and human health impacts of chemicals. He achieves this by integrating concepts, methods and data from various disciplines, such as chemistry, (eco)toxicology, microbiology, pharmacology, epidemiology and data science. Through this multidisciplinary approach, he can cover a broad temporal and spatial spectrum, with methods ranging from mechanistic models of bacterial infection at the microscale to environmental fate and effect models of chemicals at the global macroscale.

Rik is an Assistant Professor at the section Chemistry for Environment & Health, at the Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE) of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and a research fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development. In that role, he studies patterns and key drivers of antimicrobial resistance emergence at local and global scales, with a specific interest in the role of the natural environment. In 2016, Rik obtained his Ph.D. at Radboud University Nijmegen, on the environmental risk assessment of human pharmaceuticals. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen and at the University of York, United Kingdom, before joining AIGHD in 2019 and A-LIFE in 2022.