Olga Wilhelmi's Profile

NCAR

project scientist

303-497-8126

heat waves, droughts, floods, GIS, vulnerability and risk assessments, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Dr. Olga Wilhelmi is a project scientist in the Research Application Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. She is also the head of NCAR’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program - an interdisciplinary research effort that integrates atmospheric, environmental and social sciences through spatial analysis and interoperability of georeferenced information. Olga is a graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University where she majored in physical geography. She completed her Ph.D. in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1999, and has over ten years of experience working with GIS in a variety of natural and social science applications, including drought management, heat waves and human health, extreme precipitation events and flash floods. Her current research focuses on research methods for assessing societal risk, vulnerability and adaptive capacity to extreme weather events and climate change.