Climate Change Impacts in Texas: Integrated Analysis and Adaptation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032524160)

Mona Wells is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist specialized in Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Risk Assessment, and Environmental Management. Her roles have included posts in different locales internationally as an academic and as an environmental practitioner, on projects spanning a broad portfolio including technical project work, research, commercialization, program development, policy advisement, science communication, public consultation, pedagogical development, and continuous improvement. She recently served as Director of Climate Science for one of the Meadows Foundation Research Institutes in Texas.

Ryan McManamay is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he teaches classes on energy and environment, water management, and ecology. His research explores past and future anthropogenic pressures, from land use change to infrastructure development, on ecosystems with the goal of balancing ecological and societal needs. Previously, he was a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, (ORNL), serving in both administrative and technical leadership roles and working in numerous multi-institutional research projects across several Department of Energy (DOE) programs. His research has influenced natural resource management along several dimensions, including informing environmental flow management for several state and federal agencies, decision-support and training for hydropower mitigation and basin planning, and long-term integrative planning for renewable energy and urban infrastructure. He has held several editorial roles, currently serving as Associate Editor of Earth's Future (American Geophysical Union). He has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters, in addition to dozens of technical reports and proceedings, and mentored over 65 students, postdocs, and staff in research projects.