John Lin is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and the Associate Director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy. He has over 20 years of experience researching the emissions and transport of greenhouse gases and atmospheric pollutants, publishing over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers to date. He was selected as a Earth Leadership Fellow in 2022 and participates regularly in national and international research efforts such as with the World Meteorological Organization and the European Union. John's research group (http://lair.utah.edu/) is carrying out greenhouse gas and air quality observations in the Salt Lake area, as well as in the Uinta Basin. John also works regularly with satellite observations from NASA to determine carbon emissions from cities around the world. He has recently served on the Great Salt Lake Strike Team to synthesize scientific knowledge and inform policy decisions surrounding the Great Salt Lake. John received his AB, AM, and PhD degrees from Harvard University.

Dr. William Anderegg is the director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy and an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of UTah. Dr. Anderegg has been recognized by the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Blavatnik Foundation National Laureate in Life Sciences, Web of Science Global Highly Cited Researcher, and Packard Foundation Fellow for Science and Engineering. He was a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral fellow at Princeton, and earned a B.A. in Human Biology and Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University.

Paul Brooks is a professor of Hydrology and Biogeochemistry, founding director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Utah, director of the Wasatch Environmental Observatory, and Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Prior to joining the faculty at UU in 2014, he was a professor in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at University of AZ and director of the National Science Foundation funded Center for the Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas.

His research focuses on the interactions between climate, water, ecosystem structure, and society with particular interests in seasonally snow-covered mountains. As a first generation college student, Paul recognizes the responsibility that comes with the privilege of higher education and is committed to training the next generation of professionals and to translating the results of basic academic research to real world application.