Thomas H McGovern is an environmental archaeologist working in the North Atlantic. He is a Professor in the Anthropology Program at the City University of New York Graduate Center and directs the Hunter College Zooarchaeology Laboratory. He serves as the coordinator of the international North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) research and education cooperative, and serves on the Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) science steering committee and the IHOPE Circumpolar Networks and Threats to Heritage and the Distributed Observing Networks of the Past initiatives. He is active in the Society for American Archaeology’s Climate Change Strategies and the Archaeological Record Committee and the European Archaeological Association’s Climate Change Task Force.