I serve as Director for the Office of Planning and Resilience at the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Before joining government service, I worked at the intersection of science and policy for over 15 years. I developed an interdisciplinary research program on the socio-environmental dimensions of sea-level rise for my PhD at University of Connecticut and as a fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). I've also worked as a policy analyst for the U.S. Legislative Branch. Much of my past work centered on a small songbird with outsized policy implications – the Saltmarsh Sparrow – but I’ve led and collaborated on research across a wide range of topics, including climate adaptation and mitigation, interdisciplinarity, and the development of quantitative tools for decision-making. I’m passionate about effective science and policy communication to diverse audiences – especially non-specialists – through writing, speaking, and visualizations. Some examples of my communication projects, especially in the data visualization realm, are on the Science communication page.

 

If you have any questions about my past research, or are looking for code for any of my analyses or visualizations, please check out my GitHub or contact christopher.field[at]uconn.edu (he/him).

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