The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) announced today that Ariela Zycherman, Ph.D., a social scientist with NOAA’s Climate Program Office, has been named director of the Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6).
means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.. Zycherman is the first NOAA scientist to direct the National Climate Assessment since the inaugural national climate assessment in 2000. The authoritative report published every four years is designed to help Americans understand and prepare for the impacts of climate change.
As the director of NCA6, Zycherman will be the primary representative of the National Climate Assessment to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the federal government, as well as a wide diversity of stakeholders outside of the government.
“USGCRP is delighted to welcome Ariela to the team,” said Michael Kuperberg, USGCRP executive director. “In addition to her research and leadership background, she has first-hand experience and insights from being an author on the Fifth National Climate Assessment and working with USGCRP that make her particularly qualified for this position. We are excited to move NCA6 forward under Ariela's leadership.
Zycherman will step away from her position as program manager in NOAA’s Climate Program Office in the Climate Adaptation Partnerships program to become director of NCA6, which is scheduled to publish late 2027. At NOAA, Zycherman supported place-based interdisciplinary research teams working with local decision makers to build capacity to adapt to climate change.
Zycherman’s work has focused on food and agricultural systems, natural resource management, household livelihoods and decision making, and climate resilience and adaptation. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois, Chicago, received her Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology from Columbia University, an M.A. in Anthropology and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, a B.A.
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