Author: Mona Wells
The Meadows Center's Climate Science Director, Mona Wells, is an interdisciplinary scientist with expertise in environmental risk assessment and management. Her roles include posts as an academic researcher and environmental practitioner. Her work spans a broad portfolio, including technical project work, research, commercialization, project management, program development, pedagogical development, instruction, and continuous improvement. As a researcher, her work has focused on wicked environmental problems, including topics related to the disruption of global biogeochemical cycles, climate change, and biodiversity loss.
In addition to her main areas of technical expertise and experience, she has been involved in muti-disciplinary work on education, environmental attitudes, and how to stimulate the formation of distal linkages in interdisciplinary environmental research. She received the Stifterverband Science Award – Erwin Schrödinger Prize in 2010 for outstanding scientific achievement and technological innovation in interdisciplinary science. She also served as an invited member of an International Science Council Working Group from 2015 to 2018.
