Dr. Elizabeth McLeod is the Nature Conservancy's Climate Adaptation Scientist for the Asia Pacific region and the Science Lead for the Reef Resilience Network. Her research focuses on building the resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems to climate change. She has worked on conservation projects across the Pacific, modeling the impacts of climate change, conducting reef assessments, developing research priorities and management recommendations for climate change, blue carbon, ocean acidification, and developing and applying frameworks to assess community vulnerability to climate change.