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@@ -11,13 +11,15 @@ Robert Kopp is a climate scientist who serves at [Rutgers University](http://ww
 
 He directs the [Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub](https://www.coastalhub.org/) (MACH), a National Science Foundation-funded, 13-institution consortium led by Rutgers University. MACH works within the Philadelphia-New York City-New Jersey region to both 1) facilitate flexible, equitable, and robust multidecadal planning to manage climate risk, and 2) advance the scientific understanding of how interactions among coastal climate hazards, changing landforms, and human decisions shape climate risk.  It aims to build an academic/stakeholder partnership model that provides insights for just, equitable, and inclusive climate action around the world. 
 
-He also directs Rutgers' transdisciplinary [Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative](http://c2r2.rutgers.edu), a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coastlines.
+He is a founding co-director of the [Climate Impact Lab](http://www.impactlab.org), a multi-institutional collaborating advancing data-driven approaches to estimating the social and human costs of climate change data-driven approaches to estimating the social and human costs of climate change.
 
-He is a director of the [Climate Impact Lab](http://www.impactlab.org), a non-profit research organization supporting data-driven approaches to estimating the social and human costs of climate change.
+He is the founding director of Rutgers' transdisciplinary [Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative](http://c2r2.rutgers.edu), a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coastlines.
 
-Professor Kopp's research focuses on understanding uncertainty in past and future climate change, with major emphases on sea-level change, the interactions between physical climate change and the economy, and the use of climate risk information to inform decision making. He has authored over 130 scientific papers, as well as  popular articles in venues including the _New York Times_, the _Bulletin of Atomic Scientists_, and _The Conversation_.
+Professor Kopp’s research focuses on past and future sea-level change, the interactions between physical climate change and the economy, the use of climate risk information to inform decision-making, and the role of higher education in supporting societal climate risk management.
 
-Professor Kopp is a lead author of the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s](http://www.ipcc.ch/) 2021 Sixth Assessment Report, the U.S. Global Change Research Program's 2017 [Fourth National Climate Assessment](https://science2017.globalchange.gov) and [_Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus_](http://www.climateprospectus.org/).  He co-chairs the National Academy of Sciences' [Roundtable on Macroeconomics and Climate-related Risks and Opportunities](https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/roundtable-on-macroeconomics-and-climate-related-risks-and-opportunities) and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' [Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate](http://www.dels.nas.edu/basc/). He also also a committee member for the 2015-2017 [National Academies Project on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon](https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24651/valuing-climate-damages-updating-estimation-of-the-social-cost-of). He was also a contributing author to the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change](http://www.ipcc.ch)’s 2014 Fifth Assessment Report. 
+He has authored over 145 scientific papers, as well as  popular articles in venues including the _New York Times_, the _Bulletin of Atomic Scientists_, and _The Conversation_.
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+Professor Kopp is a lead author of the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s](http://www.ipcc.ch/) 2021 Sixth Assessment Report, the U.S. Global Change Research Program's 2017 [Fourth National Climate Assessment](https://science2017.globalchange.gov) and [_Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectus_](http://www.climateprospectus.org/).  He co-chairs the National Academy of Sciences' [Roundtable on Macroeconomics and Climate-related Risks and Opportunities](https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/roundtable-on-macroeconomics-and-climate-related-risks-and-opportunities) and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences' [Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate](http://www.dels.nas.edu/basc/). He was also also a committee member for the 2015-2017 [National Academies Project on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon](https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24651/valuing-climate-damages-updating-estimation-of-the-social-cost-of). He was also a contributing author to the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change](http://www.ipcc.ch)’s 2014 Fifth Assessment Report. 
 
 He has served on sea-level rise expert groups for the states of [New Jersey](https://climatechange.rutgers.edu/resources/climate-change-and-new-jersey), [Maryland](http://www.umces.edu/sea-level) and [California](http://www.oceansciencetrust.org/projects/updating-californias-sea-level-rise-guidance/) and the cities of [Boston](https://www.boston.gov/departments/environment/climate-ready-boston) and [New York](http://www1.nyc.gov/site/orr/challenges/nyc-panel-on-climate-change.page).