Dr. Shanna N. McClain is an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her PhD examines the challenges with multilevel governance in integrating three policy priorities - climate change adaptation, disaster preparedness, and resilience - into international, transboundary river basins. Her previous studies focused on environmental flows policies in international, arid river basins, estuarine science, and Spanish. Dr. McClain has worked as a consultant for UNEP and UN OCHA’s Joint Environmental Emergencies Unit in Geneva, Switzerland on the mainstreaming of preparedness and prevention of environmental emergencies into the broader framework of humanitarian response. She has also worked extensively with the Environmental Law Institute on environmental migration, Post Conflict Natural Resource Management, and sustainable peace.