Bernice Rosenzweig

Biography: Bernice R. Rosenzweig is a faculty member in Environmental Science at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. She teaches courses on climate resilience, environmental data analysis, and urban watersheds and conducts research on urban resilience to extreme rain and sea level rise. Her current work focuses on pluvial and groundwater flooding – mechanisms of flooding that are particularly cities, and expected to become more severe due to global climate change. Rosenzweig is currently a co-lead of the New York City Panel on Climate Change Flooding Working Group.