This is an archived profile of a former SES faculty member.
About
Dr. Kerry Grimm was a conservation social scientist in the School of Earth
and Sustainability at Northern Arizona University from 2014 to 2020, working
closely with NAU’s Ecological Restoration Institute. Her research examined
the human side of conservation and restoration: how communities, landowners,
managers, and volunteers engage with and shape ecological work.
Research
Her work at NAU included social capacity for collaborative landscape
planning, the role of nonprofits in public lands management, resilience
concepts in forest management, landowners’ valuation of ecosystem services,
citizen science, and local ecological knowledge in restoration practice.
Where she is now
After leaving NAU, Dr. Grimm founded the research consultancy
Human-Environment Connections and now serves as Director of Conservation
Social Science at the National Audubon Society. Her publications from her
time in SES remain in the
publication database, and her current
work is listed on her
Google Scholar profile.