Past Work

The Infrastructure and Climate Network was founded in 2012 at the University of New Hampshire with funding from the National Science Foundation. Served as one of the founding members working to incorporate climate science and resilience into the standards of practice for transportation engineers. The Transportation Research Board at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine presented an award for this work to its director in 2025.

Currently serves on the Transportation Research Board’s Committees that focus on transportation system resilience. Since 2015, Mecray worked to produce 4 major meetings at the National Academies. The meetings began with the First International Conference on Surface Transportation System Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather in 2015, and the most recent meeting entitled Transportation Resilience 2023: International Conference on Extreme Weather and Climate Change Challenges.

Currently serves on the American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate and will host panels focused on resilience at the ASCE’s 2027 Annual Meeting.