Rate My Professor Kristin Timm

Timm holds a PhD in Communication from George Mason University (2021), where her dissertation examined communication related to the Fourth National Climate Assessment while working with the Center for Climate Change Communication. She earned a master’s degree in Science Communication and a bachelor’s degree in Rural Development and Natural Resource Management from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Beginning her career at UAF as a graduate student research assistant, she progressed through roles as Science Communicator, Science Communication Lead, postdoctoral researcher, and co-investigator before assuming her current positions. Named a faculty fellow in the Honors College Climate Scholars Program in 2020, Timm provides national leadership in science-society engagement, serving on the American Geophysical Union’s Science and Society section and contributing to National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine studies. She has received the U.S. Geological Survey Eugene M. Shoemaker Communication Award (2016) for the poster “From Icefield to Ocean” and Popular Science’s Vizzie Award (2015) for poster design. Key publications include “Icefield-to-ocean linkages across the northern Pacific coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem” (BioScience, 2015), “The growth and disciplinary convergence of environmental communication: A bibliometric analysis of the field (1970–2019)” (Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022), and “A research agenda for the science of actionable knowledge” (Environmental Science & Policy, 2023). Her contributions enhance policy, management, and community responses to climate impacts.