Experts
Erika Spanger-Siegfried
Manager of Research and Special ProjectsExpertise
Global Warming-Science and ImpactsProfile
Erika Spanger-Siegfried is the northeast climate project manager with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Since 2005, Ms. Spanger-Siegfried manages the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA), a collaboration between UCS and a multi-disciplinary team of more than 40 scientists from across the region committed to exploring future global warming in the Northeast states and the impacts of climate change on key sectors. By combining state-of-the-art analyses with effective outreach, the NECIA aims to provide opinion leaders, policymakers, and the public with the best available science upon which to base informed choices about climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Prior to joining UCS, Ms. Spanger-Siegfried was an associate scientist at the Boston Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, where for six years she helped lead its work to assist developing countries in assessing and reducing vulnerabilities to climate change. With support from the United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Development Programme, and others, this work focused on understanding and building coping and adaptive capacity among highly vulnerable populations in Sudan, India, and Southeast Asia.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Spanger-Siegfried worked with the Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Environmental Laboratories. She has an master's degree in energy and environmental analysis from Boston University and a bachelor's degree in fisheries biology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
