Please join us for our next Climate School Signature Speaker Series featuring:

Professor Katherine Mach, University of Miami & Yale University

Topic: Increasing preparedness for intensifying climate change

4:00PM-5:00PM Program
5:00PM-6:00pm Reception

For virtual attendance please Register Here

Katharine Mach is professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, & Earth Science. In 2025, she is the Coleman P. Burke Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Yale School of the Environment.

Her research assesses climate change risks and response options to address increased flooding, extreme heat, wildfire, and other hazards. Through innovative approaches to integrating evidence, she informs effective and equitable adaptations to the risks. Mach was the 2020 recipient of the Piers Sellers Prize for world leading contribution to solution-focused climate research. Mach has served as a chapter author or lead in the Fourth through Sixth US National Climate Assessments and the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. From 2010 until 2015, she co-directed the scientific activities of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Mach received her PhD from Stanford University and AB summa cum laude from Harvard College.