School of Earth & Sustainability
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Master’s Students in Climate Science & Solutions
Meet our current students in the CSS Program below, or see recent alumni from this program.
Cosmos Ansah
Email: csa223@nau.edu
CSS Cohort: 2025-2026
Ryan Battles
CSS Interest Area: Climate-Disaster Modelling & Prevention, Sustainable Urban Planning, Greenhouse Gas Accounting, GIS
Internship Interest: Climate Data Visualization/Modelling, Sustainable Urban Planning
Email: rb2564@nau.edu
CSS Cohort: 2025-2026
Katie Bednar
CSS Interest Area: Climate Mitigation and Policy
Internship Interest: Government/ policy regarding natural resources
Email: kab2368@nau.edu
CSS Cohort: 2025-2026
Colin Birnbaum
CSS Interest Area: Climate Mitigation and Policy
Internship Interest: Multiple Interest Areas
Email: cbb279@nau.edu
CSS Cohort: 2024-2025
Mackenzie Buckley
CSS Interest Area: conservation-based climate solutions, with a strong passion for protecting and caring for wildlife
Internship Interest: hands-on experience in climate-informed conservation practices, restoration work, and public land stewardship
Email: mjb848@nau.edu
CSS Cohort: 2025-2026
Cameron Carlson
CSS Interest Area: Climate resilience, adaptation, and mitigation individually, socially, and environmentally; Weather, trends, and extremes; Nature-based solutions; Biomimicry; Permaculture; GIS and climate mapping; Green infrastructure; Native plants and keystone species; Habitat restoration; Landscape ecology; Watershed restoration; Conservation; Large-scale impact; Assisted migration (plants); Urban planning.
Internship Interest: Field or nature based, possible consulting, working with native plants, or climate adaptation work.
Email: cc3943@nau.edu
CSS Cohort: 2025-2026
Ava Carr
CSS Interest Area: Multiple Interest Areas
Internship Interest: Multiple Interest Areas
CSS Cohort: 2024-2025
Olivia Drogosz
Email: omd35@nau.edu
CSS Cohort: 2025-2026
Georgia Healey
CSS Cohort: 2025-2026
Cory Tompkins
CSS Interest Area: Environmental Policy, Urban Planning
Internship Interest: Environmental Policy
Email: cjt382@nau.edu
CSS Cohort: 2024-2025