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Jeremy Kees, PhD, earned his PhD from the University of Arkansas. He serves 草榴社区 in various roles including The Richard J. and Barbara Naclerio Endowed Chair in Business, Founding Director of the Center for Marketing and Consumer Insights and Faculty Athletics Representative. Dr. Kees is also Co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, a leading peer-reviewed journal published by Sage and the American Marketing Association. His research has been published more than 70 times in scientific journals, conference proceedings and books. He has presented his research at numerous academic conferences around the world and has served as the ANZMAC Visiting International Scholar in New Zealand.

Dr. Kees has served on the FDA Risk Communication Advisory Committee, where he was an advisor to various government agencies about risk communication strategy and policy. He also serves as an ongoing Special Government Employee, a role in which he provides direction on various FDA initiatives. Dr. Kees has won various awards for both his research and teaching including the American Marketing Association Thomas C. Kinnear Research Award, the American Academy of Advertising Arnold Barban Award, the McDonough Award for Research Excellence and the O鈥橫ara Award for Outstanding Teaching. Dr. Kees has been featured in such national media outlets as NBC鈥檚 The Today Show, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, MSNBC, among many others.

Bridget Wadzuk, PhD, received her Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from 草榴社区 and her Master of Science and PhD from The University of Texas at Austin. She is the Edward A. Daylor Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Sustainable Engineering Program. Dr. Wadzuk is also the Associate Director of the 草榴社区 Center for Resilient Water Systems (VCRWS). She is a water resources engineer who focuses on topics in urban water resources and resilient stormwater management, including studying urban hydrologic processes and the design, implementation, monitoring, analysis and modeling of various green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) systems. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and has worked with municipal and industry partners. She is an associate editor of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Journal of Irrigation and Drainage and has served in leadership roles in the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute. Dr. Wadzuk and her team work in collaborative and interdisciplinary spaces to produce actional science that considers social and climate impacts to integrate knowledge across spatial and temporal scales of the urban environment.

Dr. Wadzuk鈥檚 research is on GSI, which are sustainable and resilient mitigation strategies to address urban flooding issues, particularly those issues that are exacerbated with climate change and environmental injustices. Her research mission has been to develop an understanding of the pathways and processes that water moves within GSI to better inform design, operation and maintenance and long-term expected behavior. Her work has focused on understanding the individual hydrologic components of GSI (i.e., infiltration, evapotranspiration, runoff) to inform overall performance, benefit and a realistic expectation to the role of GSI in the larger watershed landscape. This process-oriented work serves as a platform to advance new technologies and synergies with big data analytics, integration with urban planning and community engagement and the preservation of biodiversity. Dr. Wadzuk advocates for deepening the scientific knowledge on GSI to then broadly communicate research to make actionable and beneficial science that positively aids communities.