Olga Wilhelmi

Olga Wilhelmi, PhD is a geographer with twenty years of experience working at the interface of atmospheric and social sciences and GIS. She is the Head of the GIS Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and is a Project Scientist in NCAR’s Research Application Laboratory. Olga is a graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University where she majored in Physical Geography. She completed her Ph.D. in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1999. Her research interests span a wide range of topics in the weather, climate, and society interactions, with the main focus on societal risk, vulnerability and adaptive capacity to extreme weather events and climate change. Olga’s current work focuses on extreme heat and air quality impacts on human health, response and risk perceptions to extreme heat in the time of COVID-19, and the role of sense of place in the geovisualizations of weather and climate risks.