| Caroly Shumway, Ph.D., Director, Center for Behavior and Climate |
 Dr. Shumway is passionate about making a difference on climate change through education, inspired by her grandfather, Dr. Roger Revelle, one of the earliest scientists recognizing human impacts on CO2. Caroly works to advance the study and use of behavioral science in the climate change field, enhance climate action and climate literacy, and educate climate professionals. Current courses include behavior change for climate action, regenerative agriculture, climate change and the oceans, and how climate change impacts to the Arctic affect us all. Upcoming climate change education efforts include scaling up behavior change for climate action, behavior change for climate adaptation, and nature-based solutions to climate adaptation. Trained in the study of brain and behavior, she wrote about the need to consider behavior in conservation over twenty years ago and has applied behavior change in stormwater messaging, value-based conservation, and aquarium exhibit design. Caroly has 25 years of experience in behavior change, sustainable development, natural resource management and conservation, policy, research, and outreach in Africa, Asia, South Pacific, and the U.S., working in government, nonprofits, and academia. In 2016-2017, she was USAID's Chief Scientist for the Global Development Lab, Senior Science Advisor to USAID's Administrator, and Director of the Center for Development Research; she has also been Executive Director of three environmental nonprofits and held senior positions at The Nature Conservancy and the New England Aquarium. Caroly received a BA in Biology from Wellesley College, a Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Caltech, Boston University, and the Marine Biological Lab. She is a recipient of the Capranica Award in Neuroethology and author of 27 publications. |
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The Center for Behavior and Climate (CBC) is a new division of Behavior Development Solutions and an outgrowth of our educational work. CBC's mission is to make a difference in climate change by educating climate professionals, college and high school students, and individual learners about climate science, climate solutions, and behavioral approaches to climate solutions.
Since 1998, we’ve helped tens of thousands of people successfully learn by applying the scientific principles and methods of 