Nicole Ardoin

Nicole Ardoin, Emmett Family Faculty Scholar, is a Professor of Environmental Social Sciences in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (SDSS). She is a faculty fellow at CASBS, senior fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and co-director of the Transformation Science Program, along with Gabrielle Wong-Parodi. 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 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 fields.