Climate resilience planning & design

Our team includes

• Jon Philipsborn Manager of Climate Resilience
  

  Jon serves as SLR’s Climate Resilience Manager. He advises clients on the strategic integration of climate change into planning, project development, and management decisions. This includes supporting public and private sector clients with disaster preparedness and climate resilience planning and identifying and implementing adaptation strategies. Jon is excited to work collaboratively on developing inclusive, meaningful, cross-sectoral partnerships, across geographies, that create positive climate, conservation and community outcomes.

• Noah Slovin Associate Resiliency Planner
  

  Noah is a Climate Resilience Planner with experience in GIS, fluvial geomorphology, water resource planning, hazard mitigation and climate resilience planning. He is particularly interested in community engagement and public outreach.

• Hailey Brim Staff Climate Resilience Consultant
  

  Hailey Brim is a Staff Climate Resilience Consultant who will advise clients with strategizing climate adaptation and mitigation methods into their planning, project development, and management decisions. She is skilled at analysing and interpreting climate impact data as well as communicating the risks and associated vulnerabilities to local communities. Hailey is able to actively engage audiences using scientific data and share tools that promote continuous improvement of society and the environment.

• Elizabeth McCarthy Staff Climate Resilience Consultant
  

  Elizabeth McCarthy is a Staff Climate Resilience Consultant with a background in Environmental Studies and Economics. She has gained experience working on the research team of a project funded by the European Commission to explore potential environmental solutions to benefit individual and community health while also performing cost-benefit analysis on the data. She has used software including QGIS and RStudio to analyse spatial data and develop mapping materials. While attending Boston College, Elizabeth acted as a peer mentor for first-year students and also served as a member of EcoPledge, a student-led organisation working to make the university campus more sustainable and environmentally friendly. In addition, she wrote a research paper for the Environmental Studies department detailing the collection of water samples in urban parks in the Greater Boston Area and exploring the connection of water quality assessments on the local ecosystem and community health