Nicole Ardoin

Nicole Ardoin, Emmett Family Faculty Scholar, is an associate professor of environmental behavioral sciences in the environmental social sciences department of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (SDSS). She is also a senior fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment. Ardoin and her Social Ecology Lab research motivations for and barriers to environmental behavior at the individual and collective scales. They use mixed-methods approaches to consider the influence of place-based connections, environmental learning, and social-ecological interactions on participation in a range of environmental and sustainability-related decision-making processes. Ardoin and her interdisciplinary group pursue their scholarship drawing from political ecology and social-ecological systems theories. Much of Ardoin’s work is co-designed and implemented with community collaborators through a field-based, participatory frame. Ardoin is an associate editor of the journals People and Nature and Environmental Education Research, a trustee and science fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, and founding board member of the National Sustainability Society, among other areas of service within the environment and conservation field. Ardoin is a faculty fellow at CASBS where she is co-leading the Transformation Science Initiative along with Sarah Soule, Jim Leape, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi.