USGS Geographer Named to IPCC Report

Margaret Hiza Redsteer has been named one of the lead authors of a chapter in the next IPCC report, due to be published in 2014. Hiza Redsteer has been assigned as a lead author of Chapter 15 of the Fifth Assessment Report, entitled Adaption, Planning, and Implementation. This chapter will assess current adaption to climate variability, all levels of adaptation policies, as well as the dissemination of knowledge and links between adaptation, development, technology transfer and adaptive capacity. Hiza Redsteer is a research geologist who leads the Navajo Land Use Planning Project in Flagstaff, AZ.