Susan Julius

Environmental Protection Agency


Biographical Sketch:
Susan Julius is an analyst with the U.S. EPA's Global Change Impacts and Adaptation Research Program. She applies decision support and uncertainty methods to evaluate the risks posed by climate change to aquatic ecosystems and urban ecosystems to develop potential responses. Her areas of expertise include climate change impacts and adaptation, risk assessment, and decision making under uncertainty. Susan co-led the production of Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.4: Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources for the 2008 National Climate Assessment. More recently, she served as Convening Lead Author for the U.S. Cities and Climate Change: Urban, Infrastructure, and Vulnerability Issues. Susan has served as a co-chair of the Ecosystems Interagency Working Group for the US Global Change Research Program and is currently the nominated EPA representative to the Chesapeake Bay Program's Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee.

Papers:
262 The Art of the Possible: Identifying Adaptation Options