The Atlas of Disappearing Places

Christina Conklin is an artist, researcher, and writer whose work investigates individual, cultural, and climatic transformation, often using the ocean as both site and metaphor. After receiving the prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, she spent twenty years as a textile artist, both in Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco. She has written for national and international textile art magazines, and her award-winning sculptures and installations have exhibited in many West Coast galleries and universities. Christina lives in Half Moon Bay, California, with her husband and two children. Marina Psaros is a science and communications expert, working in the field of climate change adaptation. She is the co-founder of the King Tides Project, an international citizen science effort to document sea level rise, and the creator of YESS, an educational program in California which empowers high school students to engage directly in sea level rise science and policy in their own communities. Marina has worked in the public and private sector on coastal climate change adaptation in California, Massachusetts, and Germany for over a decade.