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Kristina Hill studies urban adaptation strategies for sea level rise, combined with groundwater and river flooding. Her current professional consulting and academic research is on adaptation to flooding in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hill focuses on using map analytical techniques as well as a knowledge of urban infrastructure design to identify innovative approaches. Between 2006 and 2013, she helped to develop a regional flood-adaptation strategy for the City of New Orleans. She has also consulted on beach design for sea level rise in coastal Virginia, and spent nine years in Seattle working on stormwater flooding as a basis for new urban design strategies to protect aquatic species. She edited the book Ecology and Design in 2002 (Island Press), with Bart Johnson. Hill received her PhD from Harvard University and is an associate professor at UC Berkeley. Previously, she was a faculty member at the University of Virginia, University of Washington, and MIT. Hill consults and lectures internationally on new approaches for adaptation to sea level rise and flooding in cities.