Susanne Moser headshot. Susanne has short, blond hair and is smiling, wearing wire-rim glasses. Susanne Moser, PhD

Susanne Moser, PhD, is a lover of Earth, climate action strategist, researcher, poet, and facilitator of transformative change.

Susanne Moser, PhD, is Director and Principal Researcher of Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, in Hadley, MA, a Research Faculty in the Environmental Studies Department of Antioch University New England and an Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass-Amherst. A geographer by training (PhD 1997, Clark University), Dr. Moser who works nationally and internationally as an independent scholar and consultant from a base in western Massachusetts, the ancestral homeland of the Nipmuc and Pocumtuc. Her work with government agencies, non-profits, foundations, other researchers and consultants focuses on adaptation to climate change, science-policy interactions, effective climate change communication, and psycho-social resilience in the face of the traumatic and transformative challenges associated with climate change. Dr. Moser is the editor of two award-winning edited volumes, one on successful adaptation to climate change; the other on how to communicate climate change. She is a prolific writer, an inspiring speaker and has served on scientific advisory boards for Future Earth, the International Science Council, the US National Research Council and has contributed to the IPCC and US national climate assessments. You can learn more about Dr. Moser at her website.

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