Dr. Eve Gruntfest
SSWIM Director

- 30 years as a social scientist working with meteorologists,
  hydrologists and engineers
- Building communities that recognize the value of
  integrating social science in sustainable ways
- Imagining a "communitarium" as a grass-roots testbed
  along the weather-climate continuum



Jennifer Spinney
SSWIM Research Associate

- Working with SSWIM as an ethnographer
- Obtained a masters degree in sociocultural anthropology from
  the University of Western Ontario in 2010
- Masters research: 3 months living in Pangnirtung, Nunavut,
  a predominantly Inuit community in the Canadian Arctic studying
  perceptions of vulnerability to 'severe' weather
- Participated in the 2009 WAS*IS Workshop & then again as a member
  of the Advisory Committee for the 2010 & 2011 WAS*IS Workshop



Stephanie Hoekstra
SSWIM Research Assistant

- Master's student in geography at OU
- Research with NOAA's Warn on Forecast Project
- Focus on Weather and Public School Closure Decisions



Amy Nichols
SSWIM Research Assistant


- Master's student in geography at OU
- Research with NOAA's Hazardous Weather Testbed
- Focus on Weather and University Disaster Preparedness and Planning