About Us:
Paul
has joint appointments as adjunct faculty and fellow at Virginia Tech’s Center
for Leadership in Global Sustainability, and as a Division Chief at the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources (IWR). At IWR, Paul serves as a
senior ecologist and director of 16 subject matter experts working on water
resources science, policy, and planning methods. For the last two decades, Paul’s
technical work has focused on global change science and policy issues with
particular emphasis on climate change. This work includes climate change
vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning, decision analysis and scenario
planning for climate change, and Federal interagency collaborations as part of the
Nation’s responses to climate change.
Paul teaches several climate courses including Climate Change Fundamentals,
Vulnerability Assessment, Climate Smart Adaptation Planning, Decision Analysis for
Climate Change, and Climate and Sustainability for Senior Executive Leaders. He
formerly served as the Deputy Associate Director for Climate Adaptation at the
White House Council on Environmental Quality, where he worked to advance
President Obama’s Climate Action Plan and Executive Order 13693: Preparing the
United States for the Impacts of Climate Change.
Prior to moving to the National Capitol Region, Paul worked as a research scientist
and policy analyst for the EPA’s Regional Vulnerability Assessment program and for
EPA’s National Center for Environmental Assessment. Paul has also worked as a
Senior Aquatic Ecologist for The Nature Conservancy where he was responsible for
ecoregional planning. Paul received his Ph.D. in Biology from Virginia Tech in
2001
Paul can be reached by e-mail at Paul.F.Wagner@usace.army.mil.
