Gregg Garfin

Gregg Garfin joined CLIMAS in 2000, and currently serves as a CLIMAS affiliate. He is an associate professor in climate, natural resources and policy in the University of Arizona’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and deputy director for science translation and outreach in the University’s Institute of the Environment. Beginning with his CLIMAS investigations and outreach, he has worked for the last 17 years to bridge the science-society interface through dialogues between scientists and decision makers and collaborative projects that require environmental and climate science findings, data, and information. His research focuses on climate variability and change, drought, and adaptation to a changing climate.

At the University of Arizona, Gregg serves as Director of the Water, Society & Policy M.S. program, in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment. He is university director of the Southwest Climate Science Center. He directs the Art + Environment + Humanities Network, within the Institute of the Environment. He also serves on the faculty advisory board for the University of Arizona's Center for Compassion Studies.

His CLIMAS-related activities focus on development of experimental climate services, climate adaptation planning, science-society partnerships to reduce climate-related vulnerabilities and increase resilience, and the development of knowledge-to-action networks among resource management practitioners and researchers.

Recent Activities:

• Chapter lead for the Southwest chapter in the Fourth National Climate Assessment.
• Co-chair, Rio Grande Pilot Project in the North American Climate Services Partnership (NACSP). NACSP projects include development of a partnership to address the public health risks of extreme heat in the Paso del Norte region, and a monthly binational/bilingual climate bulletin—the Rio Grande|Bravo Climate Impacts & Outlook. 
• Co-editor of Climate in Context: Science and Society Partnering for Adaptation, a 2016 book and e-book on the development and practice of use-inspired science and the co-production of science and policy, through NOAA's Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program.
• Co-convening lead author for the Southwest chapter in the 2014 Third National Climate Assessment.
• Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwestern United States—a 120-author assessment on climate change and its impacts in the Southwest.