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Dr. Susanne Moser

Dr. Susanne Moser is Director and Principal Researcher of Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, in Santa Cruz, California. Her current work centers around adaptation to climate change, resilience, decision support, and effective climate change communication in support of social change. Over the past 15 years, her interests have focused on the vulnerability, impacts, and adaptive responses to climate change, especially in coastal areas, public health, and forest-reliant communities. Dr. Moser is a geographer by training (Ph.D. 1997, Clark University). Previously she served as a Research Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, has worked for the Heinz Center in Washington, DC on a congressionally mandated project on coastal erosion and management, and served as staff scientist for climate change for the Union of Concerned Scientists. Susanne Moser is co-editor with Lisa Dilling (University of Colorado-Boulder) on a major anthology on climate change communication, called Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change, published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press. She contributed to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC, and is a fellow of the Aldo Leopold Leadership and Donella Meadows Leadership Programs.

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