John has been working in the water industry since 1999. The wide variety of projects that John has worked on throughout his career have given him experience in emergency planning, long range planning, climate change science, climate adaptation, wet weather issues, green infrastructure and co-benefit analysis. John has an extensive background in climate adaptation and applying climate science to pro-active actions by a major metropolitan wastewater utility. He has also worked on several interagency advisory groups in Washington and on the west coast. John understands that not all utilities are the same and the impacts of climate change vary by region and by state. John has spent many hours working with the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group scoping specific studies to better understand how science impacts policy, urban planning and utility planning. John’s work has been featured in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report and the 2014 National Climate Assessment.