First Street Foundation
Edward Kearns is currently the Chief Science Officer at First Street, where Edward leads science activities related to quantifying and communicating climate risks. Edward also serves as an Advisory Committee Member for the Climate-related Financial Risk Advisory Committee at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the NASA Applied Sciences Advisory Committee. Edward previously held positions as the Chief Data Officer at the U.S. Department of Commerce and NOAA. Edward has a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island and a BS in Physics and Marine Science from the University of Miami.
First Street Foundation
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First Street Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) research and technology group based in Brooklyn, NY, whose mission is to make climate risk accessible, easy to understand and actionable for individuals, governments, and industry. First Street uses transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies to model physical climate risks to individual properties across the United States. Through Flood Factor (floodfactor.com), the first risk factor launched by the Foundation, they make flood data accessible to the public for free. First Street also provides access to its data to leading economists, engineers, risk experts, and other researchers so those experts can further analyze implications of climate adjusted flood risk. The next risk factor which is currently under development is wildfire which will launch this spring. The First Street team is made up of scientists, technologists and communicators.