Lisa C. Sloan’s research focuses on (1) the mechanisms responsible for past warm climate states in Earth history, and (2) possible future climate scenarios and associated impacts upon human and natural systems. Sloan graduated with a Ph.D. in Geosciences from the Pennsylvania State University in 1990. After a 2-year postdoctoral position at the University of Michigan, Sloan joined the Institute of Marine Sciences at UC Santa Cruz as a Research Associate. In 1995 she was appointed an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UCSC. She is currently a Professor in that same department, where she is also the Director of the Climate Change and Impacts Laboratory. Sloan has authored over 50 publications and book chapters on topics of future climate change and paleoclimate change, and has given dozens of public lectures on the topic of California’s future climate over the past several years. She was the recipient of an “Outstanding Young Scientist” Fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in 1996, and served as a national officer of the American Geophysical Society for many years. She also has served as editor-in-chief of the international journals Global and Planetary Change; and Paleoceanography. She serves on key advisory panels at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Science Foundation. In addition, Sloan also currently serves as the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She can be reached at lsloan@ucsc.edu; (831-459-5079), and she would love to work on climate change problems at global and regional scales with interested parties.