Kimberly Vardeman
Title: Assistant Director
Location: Davie West 310
Phone: 954-236-1334
Email: kvardeman@fau.edu
Kimberly Vardeman has worked for FAU’s Center for Environmental Studies since 2016. Ms. Vardeman manages, facilitates, and enhances the CES Coastal Resilience Research Lab (CRRL) and provides administration for over $1.1 million dollars of grant funding for the lab. She coordinates the CRRL’s community outreach resiliency events, exhibits and resiliency communication to the general public and CES’s broader community. She coordinated CES’ King Tide events in 2016 and 2018 for government and business leaders; CES’ education and outreach at the first and second annual Broward Youth Climate Change Summits; as well other numerous outreach at events that facilitate climate change and coastal resilience collaboration among different sectors of society.
Ms. Vardeman’s training is in sociology and environmental science/studies (U. Florida and Nova Southeastern U.) with her master’s graduate research focused in the coastal environment-society field, wherein she identified factors that motivate sustainable behavior through a South Florida Girl Scouts social system using phenomenological methodology. Ms. Vardeman’s specialization is in environmental sustainability and conservation, qualitative social science research, conflict resolution, and public service communication and outreach.
