Kirstin Dow is Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina. She is a Lead Author in the IPCC Fifth Assessment: Working Group 2 on Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints, and Limitations. She is also a Principal Investigator of the Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments, a project within a US NOAA-sponsored, interdisciplinary network working to advance understanding of climate impacts on society and to improve the value and accessibility of climate science for decision-making. She serves as a science advisor on climate change for community and national efforts.

She is co-author of The Atlas of Climate Change withThomas Downing.