Mary Ann Rozance

Mary Ann is passionate working with communities to support their climate action and resilience planning goals. At Cascadia, she brings her qualitative research, planning and facilitation skills to advance stakeholder engagement and collaborative planning efforts. Prior to joining Cascadia, Mary Ann was the Actionable Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group and the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC). She led training efforts for three cohorts of scientists to help them learn how to conduct community-centered research through the NW CASC Research Fellows Program. She also worked collaboratively with scientists, managers, and community members from university, federal, state, tribal and other organizations to co-identify regional climate science and capacity needs to address emerging climate risks. Mary Ann received her doctorate in 2019 from Portland State University (PSU), where she was a Fellow through the National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (NSF-IGERT). Her doctoral research examined sea level rise adaptation planning in Miami-Dade County, Florida, focusing on knowledge systems and planning processes that determine how risks from climate change are understood, assessed, and managed by different stakeholders across the landscape.

Through the NSF-IGERT she also researched social implications and policy barriers in other climate and sustainability contexts, including racial and equity impacts of carbon markets on forest communities in Nepal, identifying solutions to policy barriers to address environmental toxins in the U.S., and policy barriers to collaborative habitat restoration planning in Oregon. Mary Ann holds a PhD in Urban Studies from Portland State University, M.S. in Forest Resources from the University of Washington & a B.S. in Natural Resources Conservation from the University of British Columbia.