Stephen McCauley is a geographer whose work focuses on exploring how cities change and how urban futures can be inclusive, green and resilient. His broad substantive interests include climate change preparedness, urban resilience, energy system innovation, community participation in environmental decision-making, citizen science, and GI Science for urban planning. His current work addresses urban heat island dynamics and green infrastructure and other planning interventions that can mitigate the vulnerabilities associated with extreme heat in cities. At WPI, Stephen co-directs (with Lorraine Higgins) the Melbourne Project Center, which coordinates action-research projects that pair WPI student and faculty teams with civic organizations in Melbourne to address issues at the interface of technology, society and the environment, including marine ecosystem management, public transit planning, job readiness for marginalized youth, and support for emergency services. He also co-directs (with Lesley Dodson) the Global Lab in the Foisie Innovation Studio, a collaborative that works to elevate the impacts of action-research collaborations through creative scholarship, storytelling, and research coordination across WPI’s global network. He advises off-campus project-based learning experiences, and teaches a field methodologies course that emphasizes community engagement, project management and human-centerd design. He also enjoys working on initiatives around environmental and social justice, STEM + Arts, diversity and inclusion, and dialogic practice, and he is enthralled with the deeply collaborative and integrative nature of work at WPI with students, faculty and staff colleagues and project partners.