Our team

Erica Fleishman
Director
Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

Dominique Bachelet
Research Associate

Dominique’s research in academia and nongovernmental organizations since 1989 has focused on global climate change impacts, and she has been involved with several reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1995. Dominique contributed to the development of the first dynamic global vegetation model (MC1), which included a prognostic fire model. In 2017 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dominique also is a member of the Oregon Watercolor Society and the vice president of the Corvallis Art Guild. 

Larry O’Neill
State Climatologist of Oregon and Director, Oregon Climate Service
Associate Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

Craig Risien
Data Analyst

Since joining Oregon State University as a technician and data specialist in 2006, Craig Risien has been involved with several research programs, including the Oregon Coastal Ocean Observing System, Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies, Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS), and the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). As a product developer for NANOOS, Craig engaged scientists, the U.S. Coast Guard, commercial fishers, and other parties in building data products and applications that inform research and day-to-day operations. In addition to his role at OCCRI, he is project manager for the OOI cyberinfrastructure data center. Craig received a M.Sc. in Oceanography from the University of Cape Town in 2002 and a M.S. in Marine Resource Management from Oregon State University in 2006.

David Rupp
Associate Professor, Senior Research
Oregon State University

Nick Siler
Assistant State Climatologist of Oregon
Assistant Professor, Oregon State University

Nick Siler has been an Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science at Oregon State University since 2018. His research spans a wide range of topics in climate science and meteorology, much of it focused on the water cycle (evaporation and precipitation) and its response to climate change. Nick grew up in a small town in eastern Washington. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard in 2005, and spent the next four years serving as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force. He earned a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Washington in 2015.

Alexis Arends
Research Assistant, Oregon State University

Alexis conducts research into the climate variability of Oregon and has assisted with radiosonde observations for the NASA-sponsored S-MODE field campaign. Alexis graduated from the Climate Sciences undergraduate program at Oregon State University.

Rosa Una
Research Assistant, Oregon State University