Climate Foundation - Who Are We - Climate Foundation

Who we are...

The Climate Foundation is made up of people from
all over the world
who all have the same goal; to change the world for the better.

Founded: 2007
Location: Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Beaverton, Oregon; Carson City, Nevada
Type of Organization: Independent non-profit 501(c)3 NGO
Funding: Foundation and private donations, government grants, industry contracts, annual operating budget of $2 million
Research Areas: Food security and carbon balance in soils and seas, mitigating climate disruption in critical eco-systems around the world.
People: Climate Foundation is comprised of multiple interdisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, professors, logistic analysts, scientists, post docs, graduate students, and interns.

Meet Our Team

"Great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people" Steve Jobs

B. Von Herzen

Brian Von Herzen
(USA) obtained his A.B. in Physics, Magna Cum Laude, from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Computer and Planetary Science from Caltech where he was the recipient of the prestigious (more)

T. Theuretzbacher

Theresa Theuretzbacher (Austria/Norway), Environmental Engineer, studied Water Management and Environmental Engineering at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. (more...)

R. Mollenhauer

Bob Mollenhauer
(Massachusetts, USA) is a fundraising director for the Climate Foundation. He previously served as chief development officer at Woods Hole Research Center.
Before coming to Cape Cod, Bob (more..)

S. Harrington

Sam Harrington (Australia) is an aquacultural engineer/ technologist who has research and design and hands-on management experience in aquaculture bioremediation systems. After completing his (more..)

R. Truman

Rebecca Truman
(California, USA), Co-Founder, obtained her education from UCSB and Pasadena Art Center College of Design. She has created and sold monumental public and private art. However, it was (more...)

R. Johnson

Reggie Johnson
(Nevada, USA), Systems Engineer, is currently working with the Climate Foundation, developing systems and technologies to grow Azolla year round in areas not suitable for normal agricultural (more...)

T. Kelly

Tom Kelly
(California, USA)
Engineer, obtained his BS Degree in Physics from UCSB, and his MSEE Degree from Santa Clara University. He has spent most of his career in Silicon Valley with activities spanning (more...)

P. Tubal

Perfecto Tubal (Philippines) speaks 4 languages and has spent his life working with seaweed and fish in the Philippines, Zambia and Tanzania. Pepe has expanded seaweed farms, managed workers, worked with fish foods and marketed aqua feeds. (more...)

K. Scheltema

Konrad Scheltema (Vermont, USA) received Outdoor Leadership certification from Greenfield Community College, a BS from Hampshire College where he was a Jerome Lemelson Scholar and a MS in structural geology from (more...)

V. Khollam

Viraja Khollam, (India), Social Media Director, has a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering and has expertise in Unconventional Computational Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics. Her primary research area focused on the usage of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics-based on the (more...)

J. Newman

Jim Newman
(Massachusetts, USA), Collaborator, is the President and Chief Engineer of Woods Hole Marine Systems, Inc. and has been employed by them for over 20 years. He has provided engineering support for oceanographic (more...)

M. Prowse

Malcolm Prowse (Australia), Collaborator, has extensive experience in private sector, non Government and Government at Local, State and Federal levels as well as being recognized internationally for his work with the United Nations and other international organizations. (more...)

J. Macdonald

John MacDonald, (Australia), has extensive experience in the fields of architectural design, project and environmental management. He has been a director of the international architectural practice, DesignInc, where he was responsible for the design and delivery of a wide range of projects, including (more...)

G. Apas

Geranimo Apas, (Philippines) has spent many years working with seaweeds around the world, managing the establishment of seaweed farms, the production of seaweed based extracts, seaweed-based foliar and managed the (more...)

N. Kastrissios

Natasha Kastrissios, (Australia) cares most about safeguarding the incredible ecological diversity of life on Earth and protecting indigenous rights and cultures. She is a generalist specializing in the constructions of the English language, and is adept at cross-disciplinary (more...)

Our Team of Fellows

S. Arent

Sean Arent, (USA) Sean studies politics, philosophy, and economics at the University of Washington Tacoma. Climate and environmental policy (more...)

M. Davis

Meryl Davis, (USA)

(Bio to be posted soon.)

H. Kern

Hans Kern (Germany) was born in Munich and graduated from Bard College in 2014, with a B.A. in political studies. Inspired in childhood by the Whole Earth (more...)