Dr. Gruntfest has been working in the field of natural hazard mitigation for more than 30 years. She has published widely and is an internationally recognized expert in the specialty areas of warning systems, flash flooding and integrating social science into atmospheric science.

She was awarded the Kenneth E. Spengler Award from the American Meteorological Society in 2009. She was professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs from 1980 until 2007. In 2008, Eve launched a new three-year initiative called SSWIM (Social Science Woven into Meteorology) at The National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma. This new project, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Oklahoma, weaves social science into the fabric of weather and climate research and practice.

From 2007-2010 Dr. Gruntfest serves as the Chair on the American Meteorological Society Board on Societal Impacts. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Geography Department at the University of Oklahoma and is affiliated with CASA (Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere).

From 2005-2006, Eve was a research scientist at NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) in Boulder, CO. Eve founded the WAS * IS movement (Weather and Society Integrated Studies) as part of the Societal Impacts Program.

As of February 2009, there are 172 official WAS * ISers, mostly early career people who are dedicated to making meteorology more societally relevant. Since 2005 she has been the co-director of WAS * IS (www.sip.ucar.edu/wasis).

Between 2003 and 2008, Eve had National Science Foundation funding for a 5-year project evaluating warnings for short-fuse weather events, particularly tornadoes and flash floods. Working with her colleague from psychology, Dr. Charles Benight, the project studied how demographic changes, new technologies and new sources of information should be reflected in warning policy. The study focused on Denver, CO and Austin, TX. Four team publications appear in Environmental Hazards (2007).

During the spring of 2003, Eve was a Fulbright Scholar serving as the Distinguished Chair of Geography and University of Trieste, Italy.

In 2002, she co-edited the volume Coping with Flash Floods (Kluwer 2000) that brings together papers from leading experts who participated at the 1999 NATO Advanced Studies Institute that she organized and held in Ravello, Italy.

She spent two years (1998 and 2000) as an invited senior scholar at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

She has been an invited keynote speaker to many professional organizations in and outside the U.S. including the Association of State Floodplain Managers, the National Weather Service, and COMET at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Geologic and Nuclear Science group in New Zealand. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Flood Risk Management. She has participated in numerous workshops sharing lessons from research on warning systems and flash flooding.

Eve has served in an advisory capacity to National Research Council. NOAA, and the National Science Foundation. She has been an invited expert at The Weather Channel and is featured in two flash flood documentaries.

Eve is Professor Emeritus in the Geography and Environmental Studies Department at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She taught a wide range of courses with particular emphasis on human geography, disasters and society, and gender and society.