Translating Climate Science
Into Action
Climate scientist turned climate resilience practitioner. I help utilities, nonprofits, and organizations move from understanding climate risk to actually doing something about it, through research, training, decision-support tools, and strategic advising.
Katerina Gonzales is a climate resilience consultant who helps governments, utilities, and organizations turn climate science into action. She holds a Ph.D. in Earth System Science from Stanford University, where she studied atmospheric rivers and flood risk across the western U.S.
She went on to serve as a Special Advisor at the U.S. EPA, where she helped integrate climate risk into billions of dollars of federal infrastructure investments and build decision-support tools and training programs that help federal staff put climate science to work. Before that, she partnered with Seattle Public Utilities as a research fellow at the University of Minnesota, centering frontline workers in climate adaptation planning.
Born and raised in Colorado, Kat grew up watching drought and wildfires reshape the Western landscape she loves — an experience that still grounds her work. She specializes in making climate data legible and useful for the people making decisions on the ground. She is currently based in Minneapolis.
