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Providing scientific and strategic guidance about our changing climate through trusted partnerships, industry expertise, and government insights.

At the Critical Intersection for Climate Services

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Where Climate Science Meets
Real-World Decisions

The best climate strategies must weigh how climate hazards impact the local economy and geography. Aeolus Climate Strategies builds on relationships in each of these areas to help deliver climate services to clients, and connect scientists with industry users.

Connecting Science with Industries

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Trusted Advisors on Climate Science and Services

Aeolus can provide you with expert scientific insights to help your city, state, or industry understand and plan for a changing climate. We are skilled at navigating across and between sectors to help you effectively translate your information needs into actions.

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Connecting Multidisciplinary Teams

Aeolus helps our clients build multi-disciplinary teams to tackle complex systems-scale climate issues. We are trusted agents for climate science and services across a range of industries including insurance and reinsurance, transportation and civil engineering, state and regional planners, and many others.

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Communicating Climate Science

Our clients seek us as speakers on climate science and impacts to communities and industries. As former senior leaders in US science agencies, we have delivered talks to audiences from 30 to over 1000 at national and state conferences, industry meetings, insurance client meetings, and trade associations.

  • Responsive and Professional

    ”Ellen deeply understands the value of engaging with multiple economic sectors to assure that weather, water, and climate products, services and data meet their needs. Ellen epitomizes these services with her diligence, responsiveness and professionalism.”

    — Frank Nutter, President, Reinsurance Association of America, 1991-2025

  • Extensive Contacts

    ”Ellen has a comprehensive understanding of atmospheric science and climate services, which she combines with a unique perspective focused on industry needs. As a result of her decades of experience in climate services at NOAA, she has developed extensive contacts in academia, government, and the private sector. She has experience supporting the insurance industry in the technical underwriting of climate extremes and has a practical approach to problem solving.”

    — Willy Accame, Hamilton Development, Director - Environmental and Risk Management 

  • Understands the Needs of our Communities

    ”Ellen is a very capable and kind person who understands climate science, services, and the needs of our communities inside-out. I rarely meet someone with such a quality and feel honored to have worked with her, and expect to continue to work with her as our state drafts its climate science and impact assessments.”

    — Edwin Sumargo, State Climatologist for Massachusetts

  • Bridges Climate Science and Engineering

    “I have worked with Ellen for over a decade on infrastructure and climate initiatives. She bridges climate science and engineering practice, helping organizations make informed, defensible, and implementable decisions. Her strategic insight and practical judgment consistently bring clarity to complex decisions.”

    — Jennifer Jacobs, Director, The Infrastructure and Climate Network

  • Bridges Climate Science and Engineering

    ”Ellen brings energy and hard won expertise to everything she does. Her understanding of the needs for weather and climate information for the risk and reinsurance sector is unsurpassed.”

    — Dan Walker, Ph.D., P.G., M. ASCE,
    Co-Chair, ASCE NOAA Task Force on Climate Resilience in Civil Engineering Practice

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Ellen Mecray

Principal Climate Services expert and
strategist, trusted partner across
multiple sectors and regions

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