Background
Joanna Millstein is a Senior Earth Data Scientist at Earth Finance, where she develops models to quantify, assess, and monitor climate and transition risks.
Prior to joining Earth Finance, Joanna was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Geophysics at the Colorado School of Mines, where she led research on the physics of glaciers through empirical and probabilistic modeling. Her academic research strives to understand the mechanics of glaciers and extreme climate scenarios through remote sensing, physical models, and statistical methods. During her PhD, she co-founded CryoCloud, a NASA-funded cloud computing platform for open, collaborative geosciences. She also has experience supporting coastal resilience initiatives for sea-level rise and flood mitigation through data assimilation and scientific strategy. Her peer-reviewed research spans glacier dynamics, climate tipping points, and extreme event statistics.
Joanna holds a PhD in Geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the MIT–Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program and a degree in Earth Sciences from Dartmouth College. She was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and has conducted fieldwork in Greenland, Svalbard, and Alaska. Outside of work she is an avid cyclist, angler, and volunteer meteorologist with Watch Duty.