How can we learn from communities to understand risk and support resilience planning? Fellow Kristen Goodrich sees flood planning in a completely different way than the engineers who usually plan for major storm events, bringing the human experience of flooding to the planning process.

How do we ensure funds are available on a national or even international scale when climate disasters strike? Fellow Daniel Morris has spent recent years working to help make communities and countries more financially resilient in the face of catastrophic disasters in the future.

Fellow Bruni Pizarro is following the lives of Puerto Rican climate refugees as they make a new home in New Haven, Connecticut.

"There is beauty in the Pepperwood landscape now," said Fellow Lisa Micheli, president of the Pepperwood Preserve in northern California, which was damaged by the Tubbs fire that destroyed nearly 7,000 Sonoma County dwellings in 2017. "It is in a renewal process."

Fellow Carina Bracer and her family were living on Puerto Rico when Hurricane Maria hit in October. She and her children were able to get off the island relatively quickly, but not before she experienced the devastation and failure of the island's recovery. She is now living in Austin, Texas, and recently co-founded the Austin Network for International Impact Professionals with Fellow David Kramer. "Whatever is in our power to help minimize by controlling ocean warming, we absolutely must," she writes.