Robert Kopp is a climate scientist who serves at Rutgers University as Co-Director of the University Office of Climate Action and a Professor in Rutgers-New Brunswick’s Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences. He also directs the Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub, a Rutgers-led National Science Foundation-funded consortium that advances coastal climate adaptation and the scientific understanding of natural and human coastal climate dynamics. He is a director of the Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaboration working to bring Big Data approaches to the assessment of the economic risks of climate change. Professor Kopp’s research focuses on understanding uncertainty in past and future climate change, with major emphases on sea-level change, the interactions between physical climate change and the economy, and the use of climate risk information to information decision-making. He has authored over 130 scientific papers, as well as popular articles in numerous venues, and is a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent (2021) Sixth Assessment Report. Professor Kopp received his Ph.D. in Geobiology from the California Institute of Technology and his undergraduate degree in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a past Leopold Leadership Fellow, and a recipient of the American Geophysical Union’s James B. Macelwane medal.