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Alison Delgado is an Earth scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a collaboration between the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland, College Park. Her interests focus on policy-relevant global change research, particularly related to adaptation and vulnerability to climate change and linkages to governance and economic development. Major areas of work have included performing regional assessments of climate change impacts and adaptive capacity; developing indicators that relate vulnerability and resilience to economic, political stability, and other societal impacts; supporting countries on analysis of implementation of energy efficiency programs, particularly in the buildings sector; and implementation of best practices for capture and use technologies to mitigate methane emissions in the energy sector. From 2012 to 2014, she was appointed to serve for the U.S. Global Change Research Program where she helped coordinate the development of six sectoral chapters for the U.S. Third National Climate Assessment. She is currently in the Human-Earth Systems and Science Decisions team at the JGCRI.

• Climate vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience
• Governance and economic development
• Energy policy
• Buildings energy efficiency

• MA in global environmental policy, American University
• BS in agricultural and resource economics, University of Maryland, College Park

• Department of Energy Secretary’s Honor Award for contribution to the Department’s Climate Action and Resilience Plan, 2024
• White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Award of Excellence for contributions to Third National Climate Assessment, 2014

2023

• Rabinowitz H.S., S. Dahodwala, S.N. Baur, and A. Delgado. 2023. "Availability of State-Level Climate Change Projection Resources for use in Site-Level Risk Assessment." Frontiers in Environmental Science 11. PNNL-SA-180244. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2023.1206039

2022

• Elliott D.B., H.S. Rabinowitz, A. Delgado, and J.A. Rotondo. 2022. "Decarbonization in Climate Resilience Planning." In ACEEE 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 21-26, 2022, Pacific Grove, CA, 11-120 - 11-135. Washington, District Of Columbia:American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. PNNL-SA-171015.
• Mott A.R., A. Delgado, and M. Evans. 2022. "What, why, and when to go virtual: An international analysis of early adopters of virtual building energy codes inspections." Energy Research and Social Science 94. PNNL-SA-174900. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2022.102874
• Rabinowitz H.S., A. Delgado, D.B. Elliott, J.A. Rotondo, and M. Whitfield. 2022. "Incorporating climate change into risk-informed resilience planning." In ACEEE 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 21-26, 2022, Pacific Grove, CA, 11-198 - 11-213. Washington, District Of Columbia:American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. PNNL-SA-170960.

2021

• Delgado A., A.R. Mott, and M. Evans. 2021. Best practices for building energy codes compliance. PNNL-32155. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Best practices for building energy codes compliance
• Delgado A., M.M. Charles, M. Evans, N. Kholod, A. Kuznetsov, S. Pinchuk, and V. Kutsman. 2021. Tariff Setting in the District Heating Sector: Recommendations Based on International Experience. PNNL-30956. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. http://www.pnnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-30956.pdf

2020

• Stoughton K., W.D. Hunt, A. Delgado, and K.S. Judd. 2020. "Are You Resilient? Site Energy and Water Resilience Indicators." In 2020 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 17-21, 2020, Virtual, 11-271 - 11-282. Washington, District Of Columbia:American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. PNNL-SA-154071.

2019

• Santos Da Silva S., F.R. Miralles-Wilhelm, R. Muñoz Castillo, L.E. Clarke, C.J. Braun, A. Delgado, and J.A. Edmonds, et al. 2019. "The Paris pledges and the energy-water-land nexus in Latin America: Exploring implications of greenhouse gas emission reductions." PLoS One 14, no. 4:e0215013. PNNL-SA-136697. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0215013

2017

• Moss RH, K Preston, BS Kravitz, A Delgado et al. 2017. Nonstationary weather patterns and extreme events: Informing design and planning for long-lived infrastructure. PNWD- 27124, Battelle-Pacific Northwest Division, Richland, WA. 
• Hejazi MI, SH Kim, CMR Yonkofski, DJ Watson, GP Kyle, F Miralles-Wilhelm, Y Liu, CR Vernon, A Delgado, JA Edmonds, and LE Clarke. 2017. A Strategic Approach towards Sustainability, Security & Stability in MENA. PNWD-26293, Battelle—Pacific Northwest Division, Richland, WA. 

2016

• Moss RH, LO Mearns, J Brandenberger, A Delgado, E Malone, J Rice, T Wang, Z Yang, M Bukovsky, R McCrary, S McGinnis, A Blohm, S Broomell, J Henriques. (2016). Understanding Data Needs for Vulnerability Assessment and Decision making to Manage Vulnerability of DoD Installations to Climate Change. SERDP Project RC-2206, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, Washington, D.C.

2015

• Brown, D, A Delgado, R Moss, F Sedano. 2015. Need and Options for Subnational Scale Land-Use and Land-Cover Scenarios for the United States. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC 
• Moss RH, AJ Blohm, A Delgado, JJ Henriques, and EL Malone. 2015. Vulnerability Assessments and Resilience Planning at Federal Facilities: Preliminary Synthesis of Project Results. PNWD-4451, Battelle—Pacific Northwest Division, Richland, WA. 

2014

• Yu S, M Evans, and A Delgado. 2014. Building Energy Efficiency in India: Compliance Evaluation of Energy Conservation Building Code. PNNL-23217. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Building Energy Efficiency in India: Compliance Evaluation of Energy Conservation Building Code
• Evans M., S. Yu, B. Song, Q. Deng, J. Liu, and A. Delgado. 2014. "Building Energy Efficiency in Rural China." Energy Policy 64. PNNL-SA-95787. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.040

2009

• Delgado, A and AK Huff. 2009. North Africa: The Impact of Climate Change to 2030. NIC-2009-07D. Washington, DC: National Intelligence Council.
• Evans M., B. Shui, and A. Delgado. 2009. "Comparison of International Building Energy Standards." In Energy Conservation Building Code User Guide. H1 - H4. New Delhi:Bureau of Energy Efficiency. PNNL-18314.