Nancy Fresco

Nancy Fresco

About Nancy

Nancy Fresco is the Network Coordinator for the Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning (SNAP), and a University of Alaska Fairbanks research professor in Natural Resources. SNAP is a University of Alaska research group that provides climate projections and associated models of landscape dynammics at the local and regional level, in order to help land managers and planners adapt to ongoing change. Nancy’s background is in forest ecology; she graduated from Harvard in 1994, earned a Master’s at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 1999, and completed her PhD at UAF in 2006. She lives in Fairbanks with her husband and twin daughters, and spends much of her free time hiking biking and skiing.