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



Dr. Heather Lazrus
SSWIM Deputy Director

- Environmental anthropologist poised to lead the social
  science movement in weather & climate
- Experience with NOAA Fisheries, conducting interviews in
  Alaska & Pacific Northwest on how climate change & new
  policies are affecting livelihoods & outlooks
- Dissertation research: 10 months living on Tuvalu, a small
  island nation in the South Pacific studying human
  adaptation to climate change



Monica Zappa
SSWIM Research Assistant

- OU Ph.D. Student in Geography
- Master's thesis; Assessing Human Vulnerability to
  Hurricanes: A Case Study of Bluefields, Nicaragua
- Societal impacts of meteorology on vulnerable places
  & populations