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. 

Meghan Dalton
Senior Research Assistant

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

Peter Ruggiero
Former Interim Director
Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University

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 is currently a senior in the Climate Sciences undergraduate program at Oregon State University.

Melissa Crews
Research Assistant, Oregon State University

Kristina Fillman
Research Assistant, Oregon State University

Emir Gokce
Research Assistant, Oregon State University