Adrienne I. Greve

Dr. Adrienne Greve is a Professor in the City & Regional Planning Department at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo. Recently, she collaborated with a World Bank team working on climate-smart capital investment planning in four cities in Ethiopia and, much closer to home, lead development of the Cal Poly Climate Action Plan. She served as a Visiting Research Professor at the Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems at Kyoto University in 2013 & 2014. Prior to her time in Japan, Adrienne served as project manager for development of a Climate Adaptation Planning Guide with the California Office of Emergency Services and authored a book titled Local Climate Action Planning (2012) in collaboration with two co-authors. Dr. Greve has also been awarded contracts to develop local climate action plans (CAPs) as part of the two-quarter studio sequence at Cal Poly: City of Benicia, CA, City of San Luis Obispo, CA, and California Polytechnic State University. She holds a PhD in Urban Design and Planning from the University of Washington, a master's degree in Bioresource Engineering from Colorado State University, and a bachelor's degree in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Cornell University. In the past, Adrienne worked as a surface water hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey.