About the Authors

Ana Watson

Affiliation Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Montevideo, Uruguay

Shweta Ganapati

Affiliation Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Alice Grossman

Affiliation Texas A&M Transportation Institute, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Juli Trtanj

Affiliation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Nicole Arbour

Affiliation Belmont Forum, Montevideo, Uruguay

Irene Torres

irene.torres@octaedro.edu.ec

Affiliation Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Montevideo, Uruguay

Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra

Affiliation Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Montevideo, Uruguay

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests. Anna Stewart-Ibarra serves in the editorial board of PLOS Climate. SG is a participant of the Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellowship Program, which is a competitive fellowship that places Ph.D. graduates in the Canadian government departments and agencies. All data presented in this paper were collected as part of SG’s voluntary fellowship project with the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research as a Mitacs Canadian Science Policy fellow. This manuscript and its findings are in no way a reflection of Mitacs, the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, or the views of departments and agencies of the Government of Canada or its provinces.