Julia Frost Nerbonne

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Education

University of Minnesota, 2003. Ph.D. in Conservation Biology

Research Focus: Collective empowerment; social movements for the environment

University of Minnesota, 1999. M.S. in Conservation Biology

Minor in Conflict Management
Minor in Statistics
Research Focus: Efficacy of citizen science data collection; aquatic ecology

External Affiliations

Executive Director, Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light

[email protected]

Areas of Interest

Environmental sustainability; conflict management; social movements; climate movement; climate psychology

Research

My research focuses on the relationship between natural systems and human action. I have long been interested in charting the relationship between science, identity and citizen empowerment. My dissertation focused on understanding the role of data in empowering citizen groups at the community level. Recently I have shifted my research to focus more on social movements around climate change. I am interested in understanding not only the resources that help make movements successful, but also the ways that groups are able to bring public voice to the climate movement through building a collective identity. Most recently my research is focused on how to effectively engage the public, and specifically the faith community, in conversations about climate change.

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Nerbonne, J.F. and A. Pearson. 2014. Toward an Effective Climate Movement in the United States: An Applicaiton of Q Methodology. International Journal of Climate Impacts and Responses
Nerbonne, J.F. 2013. Building a Successful US Climate Movement From the Ground Up. Stanford Journal of Law, Science and Policy.
Nerbonne, J.F., B. Ward, A. Ollila, M. Williams, and B. Vondracek. 2008. Effect of Sampling Protocol and Volunteer Bias When Sampling for Macroinvertebrates. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 27 (3), 640-646.
Nerbonne, J.F. and K.C. Nelson. 2008. Volunteer Macroinvertebrate Monitoring: Tensions Among Group Goals, Data Quality, and Outcomes. Environmental Management 42 (3), 470-479.
Nerbonne, J.F. and R. Schreiber. 2005. Connecting Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Urban Water Quality: A Mississippi Watershed Management Organization Study. Lauderdale, Minnesota.
Vondracek, KL Blann, CB Cox, JF Nerbonne, KG Mumford, B.A. Nerbonne, L.A. Sovell, J.K.H. Zimmerman. 2005. Land use, spatial scale, and stream systems: lessons from an agricultural region. Environmental Management 36 (6), 775-791.
Nerbonne, J.F. and K.C. Nelson. 2004. Volunteer macroinvertebrate monitoring in the United States: Resource mobilization and comparative state structures. Society and Natural Resources 17: 817-839.
Nerbonne, J.F. and B Vondracek. 2003. Volunteer macroinvertebrate monitoring: assessing training needs through examining error and bias in untrained volunteers Journal of the North American Benthological Society 22 (1), 152-163.
Nerbonne, J.F. 2003. Rooted in Grass: Challenging patterns of knowledge exchange as a means of fostering social change in in a southeast Minnesota farm community. Agriculture and Human Values 20(1), 65-78.
Nerbonne, J.F. 2003. The rancher’s dilemma: A game exploring the implications of an open access system. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education 32:65-68.
Blann, K., J.F. Nerbonne. 2002. Relationship of riparian buffer type to water temperature in the driftless area ecoregion of Minnesota. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 22(2) 441-451.
Sovell,L.A., B. Vondracek, J.A. Frost, K.G. Mumford. 2000. Impacts of Rotational Grazing and Riparian Buffers on Physicochemical and Biological Characteristicsof Southeastern Minnesota, USA, Streams. Environmental Management. 26(6) 629-641.

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