Laurie Grigg

Dr. Grigg teaches Environmental Science courses on Energy and the Environment, Freshwater Ecosystems, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She also teaches Oceanography and Introduction to Geology. Her research interests include the reconstruction of past climate and ecosystem change and present-day interactions between climate, lake sedimentation, and productivity. Dr. Grigg is heavily involved with mentoring senior research projects on water quality, climate change, and sedimentation in central Vermont lakes. Her research focuses on both understanding modern processes and the reconstruction of past climate and ecosystems through the analysis lake sediment cores. Her field area is currently in Vermont but she has also done extensive work in the Pacific Northwest. This research has received funding from NSF-EPSCoR and regularly includes student researchers, many of whom have presented at professional meetings. Dr. Grigg serves as the Vice President of the Vermont Geological Survey and on several other professional boards. She is also on the Board of Trustees for the Vermont chapter of the Nature Conservancy.

Ph.D. Physical Geography, University of Oregon
M.A. Physical Geography, University of Oregon
B.A. Geology, Colorado College

ES/GL 451 Senior Seminar
ES 268 Freshwater Ecosystems
ES 200 Energy and the Environment
ES115 Geographic Information Systems
GL110 Introduction to Geology
GL111 Oceanography

Grigg, L. D., Stefanescu, I., Shuman, B. N., & Oswald, W. W. (2023). A pollen-inferred reconstruction of Holocene climatic and ecological variability from Vermont, USA. Quaternary Research, 116, 60–77.

Stefanescu, I., Shuman, B. N., Grigg, L. D., Bailey, V. A., Stefanova, M., & Oswald, W. (2023). Weak precipitation δ²H response to large Holocene hydroclimate changes in eastern North America. Quaternary Science Reviews, 304, 107990.

Shuman, B. N., Stefanescu, I. C., Grigg, L. D., Foster, D. R., & Oswald, W. W. (2023). A millennial-scale oscillation in latitudinal temperature gradients along the western North Atlantic during the Mid-Holocene. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(20).