Bio

Alex Basaraba (he/him) is an interdisciplinary social scientist, practitioner, educator, and science-informed visual storyteller with more than 10 years of experience in the climate adaptation field. His experience includes supporting communities domestically and internationally, as well as organizations and governments at different scales (federal, state, Tribal, city, and county) in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from the impacts of climate change. This includes supporting the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the State of Colorado, USAID, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth Development Organization (FCDO), the District of Columbia, among others. Basaraba is currently a PhD candidate at Stanford University in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at the Doerr School of Sustainability. His current research is focused on transformative climate adaptation using community-engaged research methods in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California. Beyond publishing dozens of white papers, policy reports, government plans, academic journal articles, and popular media articles, Basaraba has served as a contributing author, chapter graphic design lead, and review editor on multiple National Climate Assessments.

Contact

  • Academic
    basaraba@stanford.edu
    University - Student Department: Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources Position: Graduate

Additional Info

All Publications

  • Building adaptive capacity of US Gulf Coast city practitioners to extreme weather events. PNAS nexus Wong-Parodi, G., Herbert, N., Fendrich, S. J., Basaraba, A. B., Domingue, S. J., Goto, E. A., Hernandez, P., Harrison, T., Jagannathan, K., Jorns, J. L., Kalafatis, A. S., Maillard, L., Petersen, A., Shafer, M., Wimhurst, J. J., Van Berkel, D., Lemos, M. C. 2026; 5 (10): pgag330

    Abstract

    Building city practitioners' capacity to prepare for and respond to climate change-driven events can increase coastal cities' resilience. We conducted a first-of-its-kind mixed methods research project from 2021 to 2023 with 46 US Gulf Coast small and midsize cities to measure the effectiveness of an adaptive capacity-building intervention: a stormwater planning tool called FloodWise Communities (FWC) deployed through the engagement between researchers and practitioners in each city. City practitioners were surveyed preintervention and postintervention between September 2021 and December 2022. Interviews were then conducted through July 2023. We found (i) FWC positively relates to perceptions of actionable knowledge and a change in adaptation intentions; (ii) city practitioners' adaptation-relevant roles and responsibilities positively related to their perceptions of actionable knowledge and adaptation intentions, with implications for their agency to build adaptive capacity; and (iii) anticipated and unanticipated uses of the FWC tool influenced city practitioners' perceptions of their adaptive capacity.

    View details for DOI 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag330

    View details for PubMedID 42856986

    View details for PubMedCentralID PMC13650718

  • Pathways to care in pinyon-juniper woodlands: Insights from Indigenous-led monitoring and a public survey PEOPLE AND NATURE Macias, D. S., Gustie, T., Burow, P. B., Adkins, B., Bacoch, A., Basaraba, A. B., Beidl, J. C., Fillmore, B., Fillmore, H., Holston, E., Jones, R., Manning, S., Meyer, M., Meyering, S., Nabahe, W., Sage, E., Stone, H., Syskine, Y., Urza, A. K., Weber, A., Williams, N., Wong-Parodi, G., Redmond, M. D. 2026

    View details for DOI 10.1002/pan3.70432

    View details for Web of Science ID 001888183500001

  • What leads to equitable adaptation intentions in city practitioners? CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT Goto, E., Domingue, S., Kalafatis, S., Wong-Parodi, G., Basaraba, A. B., Lemos, M. 2026; 52

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.crm.2026.100819

    View details for Web of Science ID 001768368700001

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