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Rebecca Ward

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

College of Natural Resources

Bio

Rebecca Ward’s background is in climate science and education. Her work centers around supporting local communities in North Carolina with enhancing climate resilience through technical expertise, capacity-building, facilitation, and education. She has worked on a range of climate-related topics, particularly drought, heat, and harmful algal blooms; has extensive experience with communicating climate change; and has developed and led education and training programs designed for non-technical audiences and university students around climate change topics and climate risk and vulnerability assessments.