Lisa Graumlich

Dean, University of Washington's College of the Environment (Leg 1)

Dean Graumlich came to the University of Washington from University of Arizona's School of Natural Resources and the Environment, where she was the Director from 2007-2010.

Dean Graumlich investigates how ecosystems and human societies adapt to climate change, with a special focus on severe and persistent droughts. While on the faculty at Arizona, she also served as the director of the cross-disciplinary Institute for Study of the Planet Earth (1988 - 1999). From 1999 to 2006, at Montana State University, she was the Director of the Big Sky Institute, where she fostered parnerships between reseachers and maganders working on concering biodiversity in areas such as the Greater Yelllowstone ecosystem.