Anthony is the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University, Co-Chair for the US National Assessment of Cimate Change Impacts, and an author on numerous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. The objective of this Colloquium promoted by the Sustainability Science Program and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies is to host experts who bridge research and practice in the field of climate change vulnerability and adaptation. Our goal is to have policy makers and practitioners from various countries discuss how their organization acquires scientific information on climate change and uses this information to craft policy related to adaptation. From the research community we seek to understand how research priorities are defined, to what extent researchers engage with policy makers, and how results are communicated to individuals or organizations outside of academia. Most of our speakers will focus on adaptation in agriculture and forestry.