🏆 Congratulations, Kristina G. Douglass! The archaeologist and Associate Professor of Climate at ColumbiaClimate has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow. The MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recognizes exceptional creativity and dedication, celebrating creative potential through a no-strings-attached $800,000 fellowship. Douglass investigates how human societies and environments have co-evolved and adapted to climate variability over time. Her research, based in southwest Madagascar, uses lessons from the past to understand how to adapt to climate change, working in close, longstanding collaborations with local and Indigenous communities. Read more about Douglass and her work via Columbia Climate School’s State of the Planet at the link in our bio. 📷 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation #ColumbiaUniversity #MacFellow OBTLab