Eve Gruntfest

Eve Gruntfest is a research associate at the Resilient Communities Institute at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. She is professor emerita in the Geography and Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs where she was a faculty member from 1980-2007.

She is a PhD geographer who has been working in the field of natural hazard mitigation for 40 years. She has published widely and is an expert in the areas of warning systems, flash flooding and integrating social science into atmospheric science. From 2012-2013, she was a program officer in the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Division at National Science Foundation. In 2014, the Association of American Geographers gave her the Gilbert F. White Service Award. 

She was a member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Science Advisory Board from 2010-2013. She served on five National Research Council committees. Between 2008-2011, she directed the Social Science Woven into Meteorology initiative at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma. From 2005-2006, Gruntfest was a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, where she co-founded the Weather and Society Integrated Studies movement. She has been an invited expert at The Weather Channel and is featured in two flash flood documentaries. 

In 1976, she was the first graduate research assistant at the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center.