Daisy Ramirez Lopez is an environmental engineer with a focus on climate adaptation and community engagement and outreach. Daisy brings her analytic skills and personal passion for improving both our natural and built environments to Pathways’ work. She often works on both technical and engagement teams, helping to synthesize, translate, and communicate key findings to advance climate adaptation and decision-making processes.

Daisy works on a diverse range of climate adaptation projects for a wide array of clients, including public and private water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities, cities and counties across the Bay Area, and the public. Projects include the Port of San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program, the Transportation Agency for Monterey County North Monterey County Regional Transportation Vulnerability Assessment, the Transportation Authority of Marin Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning Study, amongst others.

Daisy has been at the center of San Francisco’s Waterfront Resilience Program adaptation strategy development, working with Champions from multiple city departments as they co-create the Draft Plan – distinct waterfront strategies that re-imagine San Francisco’s future. She has supported walking tours to communicate the strategies to a broad cross section of the public, led youth engagement tours and events with the San Francisco Unified School District, and hosted in language radio interviews to share information on the Draft Plan. As a San Francisco native, she is driven and passionate about helping her community and the City and County of San Francisco become more resilient to future climate change.

Daisy also advances groundwater rise research to understand the response of the shallow groundwater layer to sea level rise. She supports the technical analysis that develops existing and future condition depth to groundwater GIS data for Bay Area counties. Daisy also supported the development of rising groundwater ESRI ArcGIS StoryMaps that communicate the concepts of rising groundwater for the public in both English and Spanish.

Daisy is a member of the BayCAN equity working group, a technical contributor on the Fifth National Climate Assessment (Coastal Effects chapter), and serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for the San Rafael Sea Level Rise Adaptation Project.