Pacific RISA Team Members and Major Contributing Partners


Nancy Lewis
(PI), Director, Research Program, East-West Center (for more information, click here)

Melissa L. Finucane
(PI), Senior Fellow, East-West Center (for more information, clink here)

Cheryl Anderson
(Co-PI), Director, Hazards, Climate, & Environment Program, University of Hawaii Social Science Research Institute

Supin Wongbusarakum
, Pacific RISA Program, East-West Center

Eileen Shea
, Director, NOAA IDEA Center; Chair, Pacific Climate Information System Steering Committee

James Weyman
, National Weather Service (NWS), Director, Central Pacific Hurricane Center NWS; Meteorologist in Charge, Weather Forecast Office Honolulu NWS; Regional Focal Point, Pacific Region Climate Services; Executive Director, Pacific Climate Information System, NWS; Director, Pacific ENSO Application Center.

Luke He
, NOAA Climate Prediction Center liaison to Pacific Climate Information System and Pacific RISA

Thomas Schroeder
, Director, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR); Chair, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii and co-PI of Pacific ENSO Application Center

Kevin Hamilton
, Interim Director, International Pacific Research Center; Professor of Meteorology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii (for more information, click here)

Charles (Chip) Guard
, Warning Coordination Meteorologist,National Weather Service Pacific Region

Michael P. Hamnett
, Executive Director, Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii (RCUH)

Gerald Meehl
, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Linda Mearns
, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Wil Orr
, Research Faculty, Prescott College; Member, United Nations Executive Committee for Sustainable Redevelopment of Iraq

Mark Lander
, Meteorologist, Water and Environmental Research Institute (WERI), University of Guam

Stan Goosby
, Chief Scientist, Pacific Disaster Center

Sarah K. Jones,
Outreach Officer, Pacific ENSO Applications Climate Center (for more information, click here)

Rashed Chowdhury
, Principal Research Scientist, Pacific ENSO Applications Climate Center (for more information, click here)