Nicole Peterson
Affiliation
- Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
Research
Nicole Peterson received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego, in 2005. Her dissertation, based on field research in Baja California Sur, Mexico, evaluated the decision-making processes of various stakeholders in a national marine park. In describing the development of the marine park and its management plan, the daily operations of the marine park staff, and a group of women from a fishing community, her study assessed the importance of sociocultural context on decisions and decision-processes, including the role of social networks, personal relationships, institutional constraints, and cultural models. While at UCSD, she also worked with David Kirsh in the Cognitive Science Department on issues of group collaboration and emergency response.
As a postdoctoral fellow at ISERP, Nicole will collaborate with Elke Weber and David Krantz on several projects related to environmental decisions under risk and uncertainty.
