Dr. Aurora Elmore has more than 15 years of climate change research and technical  experience, including a Ph.D. with a focus on the environment, climate change, and  oceanography. She is an expert in communicating technical scientific information  to any audience, including; authoring technical papers, writing policy summaries,  and plain language communications about climate change. Dr. Elmore has highlevel international diplomatic experience, and experience in over 60 foreign countries, and is conversationally fluent in Spanish. Previously she was the  Program Officer for the “Our Changing Planet” grant program at the National Geographic Society. She received her Ph.D. in Geology with a focus on oceanic chemistry and deep-sea circulation and then worked as a researcher at several American and British universities before coming to National Geographic.