Dr. Delavane Diaz is a Program Manager in the Energy Systems and Climate Analysis Group at EPRI where she leads the Climate Resilience Analysis research area and team of ten earth scientists and climate data analysts. Her work focuses on climate resiliency and risk management strategies for the energy system, including modeling the impacts of climate change on energy supply and demand and conducting localized vulnerability assessments.
Delavane has served as a Lead Author of WGII Chapter 16 “Key Climate Risks across Sectors and Regions” for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report as well as the Economics chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) and the Climate Risk chapter of NCA4. Delavane joined EPRI in 2008, working on various environmental policy issues, including the impact of carbon mitigation proposals on electric sector operations and generation capacity planning. Before EPRI, she served as an Air Force acquisitions officer at Hanscom AFB, MA.
A Tampa, FL native, Delavane completed her Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, focused on climate change impacts and costs in integrated assessment models, including coastal impacts and adaptation to sea level rise. She is a distinguished graduate of the US Air Force Academy with a B.S. in Astronautical Engineering and earned her M.Sc. in Environmental Change and Management at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
Recent Publications
- [1] O'Neill, B C., et al, 2022. "Key Risks Across Sectors and Regions." Chapter 16 in: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of WGII to AR6 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
- [2] Diaz, Delavane and F Moore, 2017. Quantifying the Economic Risks of Climate Change. Nature Climate Change, 7(11): 1-9. [Free access available here]
- [3] Rose, S, Delavane Diaz and G Blanford, 2017. Understanding the Social Cost of Carbon: A Model Diagnostic and Inter-comparison Study. Climate Change Economics, 8(2): 1-28.
- [4] Diaz, Delavane, 2016. Estimating global damages from sea level rise with the Coastal Impact and Adaptation Model (CIAM). Climatic Change, 137: 143-156.