Beyond Adaptation - New Approaches to Addressing Climate Uncertainty
Tracks
Beyond Adaptation
| Monday, October 13, 2025 |
| 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM |
| Bealey 2 |
Speaker
Patrick Curran
PhD Candidate
University of Canterbury
Lost in projection: how climate plans misrepresent uncertainty
4:00 PM - 4:15 PMBiography
Patrick is a PhD candidate researching Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) for climate adaptation. His work involves collaborating with adaptation planners to support updating and improving DMDU tools to create actionable strategies for real-world resilience.
Mr Alastair Zangs
Independent Researcher & Adaptation Practitioner
Independent
Mapping the unseen: how systems thinking can accelerate adaptation to transboundary climate risk
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMBiography
Alastair Zangs is a climate adaptation practitioner and researcher whose work focuses on the governance of transboundary climate risk. Using systems thinking, he explores why such risks remain poorly addressed in policy and develops pathways for more effective and just adaptation planning.
Ms Amanda Leinberger
Adaptation Program Manager and PhD Candidate
University of Arizona
Evaluation of academic-based climate service providers in the United States
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Amanda Leinberger is the Adaptation Program Manager at the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions at the University of Arizona. She is also a PhD Candidate in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment. Amanda's research focuses on climate adaptation, climate services, and networks.
Dr Sadie McEvoy
Senior Researcher
Deltares
Accelerating adaptation with policy hackathons – experiences from the Netherlands, Egypt and Brazil
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Sadie McEvoy is a senior researcher on adaptation planning and decision making under deep uncertainty for water resources, coasts, and urban areas. Her work focuses on how adaptation is planned, the effectiveness of adaptation, and methods and tools to support decision making for effective adaptation.
Ms Bronte Alston
Student
Edith Cowan University
Matters of care-full adaptation: An open dialogue toward transdisciplinarity
5:00 PM - 5:45 PMBiography
Dr Justine Dandy
Associate Professor
Edith Cowan University
Matters of care-full adaptation: An open dialogue toward transdisciplinarity
5:00 PM - 5:45 PMBiography
Mr Rumen Rachev
Phd Candidate
Edith Cowan University
Matters of care-full adaptation: An open dialogue toward transdisciplinarity
5:00 PM - 5:45 PMBiography
Rumen Rachev is a performance scholar, researcher, and conceptual artist, currently a PhD candidate at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and a member and HDR representative at the Centre for People, Place, and Planet (CPPP), Edith Cowan University (ECU).
Mr Abdul-Razak Suleman
Student
Edith Cowan University
Matters of care-full adaptation: An open dialogue toward transdisciplinarity
5:00 PM - 5:45 PMBiography
Mrs Shonah Trescott
Student
Edith Cowan University
Matters of care-full adaptation: An open dialogue toward transdisciplinarity
5:00 PM - 5:45 PMBiography
Ms Theresa Wong
Head of Science
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / IPCC / Working Group II / WGII / Technical Support Unit
Facilitator
Biography