Katharine Jacobs

Katharine Jacobs is the Director of the new Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions (CCASS) at the University of Arizona, where she is also a faculty member. CCASS supports climate change adaptation and assessment activities at regional, national and international scales. For the last four years, Jacobs worked in the White House as Director of the National Climate Assessment, leading a team of 300 authors and thousands of contributors. She also was the lead advisor on water science and policy, and climate adaptation. Prior to her work in DC, Jacobs was the Executive Director of the Arizona Water Institute. She has more than twenty years of experience as a water manager for the State of Arizona. Ms. Jacobs earned her M.L.A. in environmental planning from the University of California, Berkeley.