Kelley De Polt

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Kelley De Polt is a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she is part of the Water and Climate Risk program. Her work focuses on compound climate extremes, particularly the interactions between drought and heatwaves, and their socio-environmental impacts. She holds a Master’s in Geography from East Carolina University and a Bachelor’s in Meteorology from North Carolina State University, with additional training in GIS and computer programming. Prior to her PhD, she contributed to climate risk research at NCICS and the State Climate Office of North Carolina.