Communications Manager, Decision Center for a Desert City Arizona State University PO Box 878209 Tempe AZ 85287 480-727-9234 Nicholas.Gerbis@asu.edu
Nicholas Gerbis is Communications Manager for Decision Center for a Desert City, where he extends the reach and accessibility of DCDC research and core messages to diverse audiences via new and traditional media. Prior to joining DCDC, he published numerous science articles, promoting university research as part of Arizona State University’s Office of Media Relations and the Global Institute of Sustainability. He brings to DCDC more than five years’ experience as Assistant Communications Director for the Flinn Foundation, an Arizona-based nonprofit organization supporting scientific research, the arts and education, along with four years’ experience on the editorial board of a nonprofit literary journal. Mr. Gerbis holds a Master of Mass Communication degree from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU, where his thesis examined climate change denial discourse in newspaper coverage of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) final report. He also holds a Master of Science degree in geography (climatology) from the University of Delaware, where he developed a multivariate clustering approach to biozonation and co-developed climate, epidemiology and urban health models, including a heat watch-warning system for seven major U.S. cities developed on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Untied Nations World Health Organization.
