About Us
With the Earth’s temperature already reaching +1.5°C above preindustrial in 2024, climate impacts are spreading quickly across all sectors of our society and economy. As professionals around the globe face the consequences of a changing climate, training and knowledge on how to understand, work with, and plan for climate impacts and solutions remains scarce and scattered. And, too often, that training is provided by people or organizations with an agenda.
Engage Climate Science brings understanding, frameworks, and tools that address climate insights and strategic planning without the agenda. Leaders tasked with making critical decisions about near- and long-term trajectories often lack an adequate understanding of the best available science. This knowledge gap limits planning efficacy, increases future risk, and undermines strategy. Grounded in current research with programs taught by a world-renowned climate scientist, Engage brings climate literacy to those who need it most.
Climate science insights are no longer merely advantageous; they are essential for successful organizational, financial, and community decision-making. To set a new standard for climate science engagement and ensure that decision makers have the knowledge and resources to understand and apply relevant climate data, the University of Colorado Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and renowned scientist and communicator Dr. Twila Moon founded Engage Climate Science.
Engage offers a suite of activities including in-person and virtual seminars, half to multi-day workshops, and custom programming to meet your unique needs. Previous participants have started new media campaigns, re-written corporate strategies to integrate climate awareness and action, established new climate-focused investments and giving programs, continued engagement through follow-up training, and more.
Purpose
Empower leaders and transform decision-making with hands-on climate science training and expert insight.
Mission
Provide science-based frameworks and tools to evolve how professionals engage with and plan for climate impacts and solutions—without an agenda.
Vision
Engage aims to cultivate professional cultures with a shared foundation of climate science knowledge to create resilient organizations and communities, collaborate effectively across sectors, and identify strategic opportunities for future impact.
Meet the Founder and Instructor
Dr. Twila Moon
Dr. Twila Moon is Deputy Lead Scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), a global leader in Earth science. In 2025, Dr. Moon also became the first Climate Science Engagement Lead at the CIRES Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation, and created Engage Climate Science.
Dr. Moon is a world-renowned scientist specializing in the connections across ice, climate, ocean, ecosystem, and society – and bringing climate science insights to decision makers and business leaders. Her pioneering research focuses on Greenland and the Arctic and has been published in high-impact journals such as Science and Nature, to which she has also contributed invited perspectives.
Dr. Moon’s research has received global media coverage, such as BBC, Associated Press, and many more. Dr. Moon has testified for the U.S. Congress; is a lead editor for the Arctic Report Card, NOAA’s highest impact annual report; serves on the U.S. Polar Research Board; and spearheads efforts to improve knowledge exchange amongst researchers and with decision makers and the public. She also specializes in bringing climate science knowledge to the business and philanthropy communities, assisting with the insights needed to motivate impactful solutions and strategies that meet the urgency of the climate crisis. In 2025, she was recognized for her work with the American Geophysical Union Pavel S. Molchanov Climate Communications Prize.
After completing degrees at Stanford and University of Washington, she received Postdoctoral Fellowships for work at the University of Colorado and University of Oregon and held a Lectureship at the University of Bristol (UK) before returning to CIRES in 2017.
Team Members
Julia Dinmore, Communications & Outreach Specialist
- Julia Dinmore is the Communications and Outreach Specialist with Engage Climate Science. In 2021, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Society with a concentration in Environmental Health from Cornell University. Her passion for blending STEM and the Humanities within the environmental realm has defined her career.
- Julia started as a Campaign Associate with Environment America, crafting messaging, coordinating events, and connecting with audiences to promote conservation. She went on to a communications-forward role with The Water Research Foundation, where she managed the scientific publication pipeline and social media platforms.
- From there, Julia joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. As Communications Representative, she created and carried out strategic communications plans for the Water Power Division, working closely with researchers on hydropower and marine energy projects. In 2026, she completed her Master of Arts in Fiction Writing from Johns Hopkins University. With her love for storytelling and deep appreciation for climate science, Julia aims to use her versatile skillset to get Engage out to the leaders and organizations who need it most.