Dr. Kenny Broad
- Climate Dynamics
- Fisheries
- Natural and Man-Made Hazard Mitigation
- Decision, Risk and Management Science
- Sociology
- B.A. Literature, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 1989
- M.A. Marine Policy, RSMAS, University of Miami, FL, USA, 1992
- Ph.D. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, 1999
Dr. Broad is an environmental anthropologist who received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1999 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Marine Affairs and Policy, RSMAS and a faculty affiliate at the University of Miami’s Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy. He holds a joint appointment at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and is on the executive committee of the NSF-funded Center for Research on Environmental Decision. Broad is also a member of the NOAA Science Advisory board for the Climate and Global Change Program. Prior to anthropology, Broad participated and led several scientific and documentary film expeditions around the globe, including the exploration of the world's deepest cave in the Huautla Plateau in Mexico.
Dr. Broad’s current work focuses on human-environment interaction related to natural resource management. Working in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and Indonesia, he studies climate impacts and human perception, the use and misuse of scientific information, decision making under uncertainty, marine protected areas, as well as issues related to social equity. This work involves close collaboration with hydrologists, oceanographers, economists, ecologists, climatologists and other strange creatures.