2025 Wilkes Climate Summit

Collins is Co-Director of the Center for Natural & Technological Hazards. He has co-authored numerous studies that document how racial/ethnic minority and low- socioeconomic-status populations in the US experience disparate exposures, adverse experiences, and health impacts from climate... Read More →

Dr. Swanson is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah. Prior to that she was at the University of Chicago for 9 years where she developed multiscale reactive simulation methods to describe proton transport and pH-driven processes in biomolecular systems. She... Read More →

Dr. Novick is a Professor and the Paul H. O'Neill Chair in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Her research applies network-enabled approaches to understand how climate variability affects terrestrial ecosystems, and complimentary processes... Read More →

Mark Heinnickel is a Principal Scientist leading Lumen Bioscience’s Bioproduction team. Mark has over 20 years’ experience in academia and industry studying the proteins and pathways essential for photosynthesis. He previously worked at Matrix Genetics and ExxonMobil, where he... Read More →

Jason Aramburu is an experienced entrepreneur and venture capitalist with over 15 years of experience developing biochar projects in the US, Latin America, and East Africa. He has focused on the potential of biochar for its ability to repair soil health and sequester atmospheric carbon... Read More →