About Saturnina
Saturnina Climate Consulting is a climate resilience practice built around a core premise: most organizations already have access to climate data, but need a partner to connect it to the decisions they need to make. Saturnina bridges that gap. The firm helps public agencies, utilities, engineering consultancies, universities, and mission-driven organizations interpret climate risk, integrate climate information into planning and operations, and build adaptation strategies designed for implementation. Services span climate risk analysis, decision support, adaptation planning, and climate literacy training. Saturnina is available for direct engagement, subcontracting, and teaming on multidisciplinary projects.
Katerina Gonzales, Ph.D.
Katerina Gonzales is a climate scientist and resilience practitioner who founded Saturnina Climate Consulting to help organizations move from understanding climate risk to acting on it.
She holds a Ph.D. in Earth System Science from Stanford University, where her research focused on atmospheric rivers and flood risk across the western United States. Her peer-reviewed research has been covered by NPR, ABC, Bay Nature, and other outlets.
Katerina served as a Special Advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she helped integrate climate risk into billions of dollars of federal infrastructure investments and led the development of decision-support tools and training programs for federal staff. Prior to EPA, she partnered with Seattle Public Utilities as a research fellow at the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership, conducting co-produced research that centered frontline utility workers in climate adaptation planning.
Her work sits at the intersection of climate science, institutional decision-making, and equitable adaptation. She specializes in making climate data legible and useful for the people making decisions on the ground: program managers, engineers, elected officials, and community leaders.
Born and raised in Colorado, Katerina grew up watching drought and wildfires reshape the Western landscape she loves. She is currently based in Minneapolis.
About the name
The name Saturnina carries three meanings:
In planetary symbolism, Saturn represents time, cycles, resilience, and boundaries. It is the planet of long-term structure, of systems that endure because they were built to account for what is coming. Climate work operates on Saturn's timescale: slow forces, long horizons, the discipline of planning for conditions that have not yet arrived.
In the Catholic tradition, Saint Saturnina is the patron saint of farmers and winemakers, protectors of the land and its seasons. The name honors the connection between climate, agriculture, and the people whose livelihoods depend on understanding what the weather will do next.
Saturnina was also the first name of Katerina's maternal great-great-grandmother. The name honors connection to the past and ancestors as a source of personal and community resilience.