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Susi is the
Director and Principal Researcher of Susanne Moser Research &
Consulting in Santa Cruz, California. She is also a Social Science
Research Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at
Stanford University and a Research Associate at the University of
California-Santa Cruz Institute for Marine Sciences. Previously, she
served as a Research Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research in Boulder, Colorado; served as staff scientist for climate
change at the Union of Concerned Scientists; was a research fellow
at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and at the Heinz Center in
Washington, DC.
Susi's work focuses on adaptation to
climate change, vulnerability, resilience, climate change
communication, social change, decision support and the interaction
between scientists, policy-makers and the public. She is a geographer
by training (Ph.D. 1997, Clark University) with an interests in how
social science can inform society's responses to this global
challenge. She has worked coastal areas, urban and rural communities,
with forest-reliant communities, and on human health issues.
Susi contributed to Working Group II of the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report, and currently serves as Review Editor on the IPCC’s Special Report on “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.” She has advised the Obama Administration on communication of climate change, evaluated former Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Project on climate change communication, and is a frequent advisor to policy-makers and managers at all levels of government. She is a co-editor with Lisa Dilling (University of Colorado-Boulder) on a ground-breaking 2007 anthology on climate change communication, called Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change (Cambridge University Press). Her work has been recognized through fellowships in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, the UCAR Leadership Academy, Kavli Frontiers of Science Program, and the Donella Meadows Leadership Program.
Publications
Moser, Susanne C. and Julia Ekstrom. (2010). A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation, PNAS, published Dec 6, doi:10.1073/pnas.1007887107. Download & Suppl. Mat.
Moser, S.C. et al. (2008). The Future is Now. An Update on Climate Change Science, Impacts and Response Options for California. PIER Energy-Related Environmental Research, Sacramento, CA, CEC-500-2008-071 (with accompanying summary outreach brochure, CEC-500-2008-077). Or, download the report and brochure.
Moser, S.C. (2007). Is California preparing for sea-level rise? The answer is disquieting. California Coast and Ocean 22(4): 24-30. Download
Moser, S.C. and J.Tribbia (2007). Vulnerability to Coastal Impacts of Climate Change: Coastal Managers’ Attitudes, Knowledge, Perceptions, and Actions. California Energy Commission, PIER Energy-Related Environmental Research, Sacramento, CA, CEC-500-2007-082. Download
Luers, A.L. and S.C. Moser (2006). Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change in California: Advancing the Debate on Adaptation. Report prepared for the California Energy Commission, Public Interest Energy Research Program and the California Environmental Protection Agency, Sacramento, CA, CEC-500-2005-198-SF. Download
Moser, S.C. (2006). Climate Scenarios and Projections: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable As Applied to California. Synthesis Report of a workshop held at the Aspen Global Change Institute, 11-14 March 2004 in Aspen, Colorado, Elements of Change series, AGCI: Aspen, CO. Download
