Dr. Colleen Strawhacker selected as Permanent Federal Program Director in Arctic Sciences Section

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February 24, 2023

Dr. Colleen Strawhacker has been selected as a Permanent Federal Program Director in the Office of Polar Programs Arctic Sciences Section. Dr. Strawhacker came to NSF in 2018 as a Visiting Scientist (VSEE) and serves as a Program Officer for the Arctic System Science, Arctic Research Coordination and Policy Support, and Navigating the New Arctic Programs.

Dr. Strawhacker earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Arizona State University in 2013, where she focused on the archaeology of climate-driven risk to food security in the U.S. Southwest and the North Atlantic. Her expertise includes convergent research approaches spanning the natural and social sciences and developing cyberinfrastructure approaches for the social sciences and Indigenous Knowledge. She spent the first part of her career working on the interplay between humans and their environment in the U.S. Southwest and then transitioned to working in the Arctic during a postdoctoral position at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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