Emily Fusco

An expert in the area of global change science and adaptation, Emily Fusco was a research scientist with the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group prior to her appointment as NE CASC Deputy University Director. There she partnered with the Northwest CASC to lead a “State of the Climate Science Assessment for Species and Ecosystems in the Northwest".  This project built on Fusco’s earlier work as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. In that position, Fusco conducted climate change vulnerability assessments, formed adaptation partnerships, and helped incorporate adaptation science into resource management across the western U.S. A former NE CASC graduate fellow, Fusco holds a PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from UMass Amherst and a BA from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington