Dr. Dave Reidmiller

Dr. Dave Reidmiller is the Director of the Climate Center at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) where he leads a team focused on delivering climate services to coastal and marine stakeholders. Soon after moving to Maine, Dave was appointed as a climate advisor to the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition Team. Prior joining GMRI, Dave served in a number of climate science policy positions in the federal government, including as Director of the Northeast & Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Centers at the U.S. Geological Survey, Director of the Fourth National Climate Assessment with the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, and as Chief Climate Scientist at the State Department where he led U.S. negotiations on science and technology for the Paris Agreement. Dave also served as a Fellow in the U.S. Senate working on energy and natural resource issues, as well as a Mirzayan Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from the University of Washington, his BA in chemistry from Colgate University, and is a native of Rochester, NY.