Andy Kliskey is a social-ecological systems scientist and behavioral geographer with training, teaching, and research experience in landscape ecology, behavioral and perceptual geography, geographic information systems (GIS), planning, policy analysis, and surveying. He has spent the last 20 years examining community and landscape resilience in New Zealand’s Maori communities, rural communities in western Canada, Inupiat communities in northwestern Alaska, Denai’na communities in southcentral Alaska, and rural communities in Idaho. His teaching and research are interdisciplinary in nature and directed at integrated methodologies in social-ecological systems that combine stakeholder-engagement, scenario analysis, and geospatial modeling. He holds a PhD in behavioral geography and GIS from University of Otago, New Zealand.