SARAT SREEPATHI: Knowledge is pivotal to help societies wanting to make their communities more resilient and to determine the best strategies to mitigate the impacts of extreme climate events.

MELISSA DUMAS: Climate change impacts differ in cities versus rural areas. Melissa Allen Dumas's research looks at how weather and atmospheric conditions, people's behavior and activities and the presence of concrete and asphalt impact urban neighborhoods.

SCOTT PAINTER: New information about what's happening in rivers — and the microbially active zones adjacent to them — can lead to a clearer understanding of how water quality will be impacted by climate change, land use and population growth.

BANDANA KAR: Using novel data sets and computing systems, ORNL's Bandana Kar and colleagues simulate how climate change affects the safety and security of the country.

BUDHU BHADURI: During an invited presentation at AGU, Budhu Bhaduri will examine the challenge in processing large volumes of high-resolution earth observation and simulation data quickly into useful tools for those providing time-critical crisis response.

FORREST HOFFMAN: Computational earth system scientist Forrest Hoffman and his team make sophisticated climate models even smarter by "listening" to the earth and determining how environmental cycles and interactions may impact overall earth health.

DEEKSHA RASTOGI: Oak Ridge National Laboratory computational scientist Deeksha Rastogi partners with colleagues in high-performance computing to understand the human impacts of climate change.

MOET ASHFAQ: While exploring the impact of greenhouse gases in the air and atmospheric conditions at monsoon season, ORNL's Moet Ashfaq and colleagues used an unprecedented ensemble of climate model data for new insights of monsoon projections at regional scale.