Nicole Ardoin

Nicole Ardoin, Emmett Family Faculty Scholar, is an associate professor in the Environmental Behavioral Sciences Group of the Environmental Social Sciences Department of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. She is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and an affiliated faculty member in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER).

Founder of the Stanford Social Ecology Lab, Professor Ardoin is an interdisciplinary social scientist who researches individual and collective environmental behavior as influenced by environmental learning and motivated by place-based connections. Professor Ardoin and members of her lab often collaborate with community partners, including public, private, and social sector organizations, to co-design studies that build on a theoretical frame while addressing questions of relevance to practice. Interested in actionable knowledge and notions of co-production, Professor Ardoin and her group collaborate with sustainability, environmental conservation, and philanthropic organizations to study the design, implementation, and effectiveness of a range of social-ecological practices.

Professor Ardoin is on the Board of Trustees of the California Academy of Sciences, where she is also an elected Science Fellow. She chairs the Education Advisory Council of Nature Bridge, and serves as an advisor to the OECD on climate change education initiatives. She holds a PhD in Social Ecology from Yale University.