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Zena Grecni

Zena Grecni

Sustained Climate Assessment Strategic Lead, Pacific RISA, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation

zena.grecni@asu.edu

808-944-7242

East-West Center
1601 East-West Rd
Honolulu, HI 96848-1601

Titles

  • Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Sustained Climate Assessment Strategic Lead, Pacific RISA, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
  • Co-Investigator, Pacific RISA, a NOAA CAP/RISA Team

Biography

Zena Grecni is a researcher at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation. She is a co-investigator and the Sustained Climate Assessment Strategic Lead for the Pacific RISA, a NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) team. Based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, she works with a network of federal, state, and local partners to synthesize climate information and conduct assessments for the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands region. Ms. Grecni coordinates the Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA) and has served as Lead Author of assessments for Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. She was an author of the Hawai‘i and Pacific Islands chapter of the US Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) and is an author of the Fifth NCA, currently under development. Ms. Grecni's research interests include climate adaptation finance for small islands, climate change communication, freshwater and coastal governance, and environmental policy analysis. She has more than a decade of experience in the Pacific Islands.

Education

  • MEM, Environmental Management, Yale School of the Environment, 2015
  • BS, Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, 2008

Expertise

External Links

Journal Articles

2022

Keener, V., Z. Grecni and S. C. Moser. 2022. Accelerating climate change adaptive capacity through regional sustained assessment and evaluation for Hawai'i and the U.S. affiliated Pacific islands. Frontiers in Climate 4. DOI: 10.3389/fclim.2022.869760 . (link )

2013

Finucane, M. L., R. Miller, K. Corlew, V. W. Keener, M. Burkett and Z. Grecni. 2013. Understanding the climate-sensitive decisions and information needs of freshwater resource managers in Hawaii. Weather, Climate, and Society 5(4):293–308. DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-12-00039.1. (link )

Reports

2021

Grecni, Z., E. M. Derrington, R. Greene, W. Miles and V. Keener. 2021. Climate Change in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Indicators and Considerations for Key Sectors. East-West Center. Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (link )

Keener, V., Z. Grecni, K. Anderson Tagarino, C. Shuler and W. Miles. 2021. Climate Change in American Samoa: Indicators and Considerations for Key Sectors. East-West Center. Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (link )

2020

Grecni, Z., W. Miles, R. King, A. Frazier and V. Keener. 2020. Climate Change in Guam: Indicators and Considerations for Key Sectors. East-West Center. Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (link )

Miles, W., Z. Grecni, E. Xavier Matsutaro, P. Colin, V. Keener and Y. Golbuu. 2020. Climate Change in Palau: Indicators and Considerations for Key Sectors. East-West Center. Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (link )

Report Chapters

2018

Keener, V., D. Helweg, S. Asam, S. Balwani, M. Burkett, C. Fletcher, T. Giambelluca, Z. Grecni, M. Nobrega-Olivera, J. Polovina, G. Tribble and K. Kunkel. 2018. Chapter 27: Hawai'i and U.S.-Affiliated Pacific islands. Pp. 1242–1308 In: Reidmiller, D. R., C. W. Avery, D. R. Easterling, K. L. Lewis, T. K. Maycock and B. C. Stewart eds., Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II. U.S. Global Change Research Program. (link )