Bio

As Interim Director and Deputy Director of the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group, Dr. Vogel provides leadership, oversight and continuity of operations for the organization, including external relations, fundraising, government and University relations, budgeting, strategic planning, and technical excellence in applied interdisciplinary climate impacts and adaptation research and engagement. He serves as the lead principal investigator for the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative, a five-year multi-institution collaboration with other universities and community-facing non-governmental organizations funded as a NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership program (formerly known as RISA). The Resilience Collaborative was envisioned as an effort to center Tribes and frontline communities in the implementation of a climate resilience research and engagement program. We continue to evolve through ongoing engagement with community partners and by adopting an approach of reciprocity, where communities benefit tangibly from engaging with our program. Dr. Vogel is committed to systemic change in social-environmental systems to ensure the most sustainable and equitable possible future for human and non-human beings. He is a fierce skeptic, always questioning how to achieve the greatest impact, and committed to his team and their success.

Previous to this position, Dr. Vogel spent 12 years as a consultant specializing in climate change impacts and adaptation at Stratus Consulting and Abt Associates – working both domestically and internationally. He conducted early work with U.S. water utilities who were among the first institutions to deeply grapple with how climate change might affect their ability to deliver on their mission. Later, Dr. Vogel worked more with communities and decision makers in developing and emerging nations like the Philippines, Laos, Kazakhstan, Mali and several Caribbean countries. Observing first-hand how climate and international finance do and do not support these nations greatly reinforced Dr. Vogel’s commitment to being a change agent and his commitment to impact. Dr. Vogel was trained as a policy scientist and brings a context sensitive, problem-oriented, and multi-method approach to all his work. He received a BS in chemistry and a BA in humanities from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. He received his MS in atmospheric physics from the University of Colorado in 2003 and his PhD in public policy from the University of Colorado in 2006.