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Education

• PhD, Earth System Science, Stanford University, 2025
  Advised by Professor Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
• BA, Environmental Sciences & Policy, with distinction, Duke University, 2017
  Minor in Global Health
  Graduate Honors Thesis: “Process evaluation and environmental analysis of a malarial larvicide intervention in Tanzania”

Professional Experience

• 2026 - Present: Climate & Health Planning Specialist, County of Santa Clara Public Health Department
  San Jose, CA
• 2025 - 2026: Management Analyst, County of Santa Clara Office of Sustainability and Resilience
  San Jose, CA
• 2019 - 2025: Doctoral Researcher, Stanford University
  Stanford, CA
• 2017 - 2019: Climate and Sustainability Analyst, ICF
  Washington, DC
• 2016 (Summer): Health and Policy Intern, Management Sciences for Health
  Washington, DC
• 2015 (Summer): Mid-Atlantic Policy Research Fellow, National Parks Conservation Association
  Washington, DC

Peer-reviewed Publications

Nina Berlin Rubin, Dana Rose Garfin, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi. Exploring antecedents to climate migration: sense of place, fear and worry, and experience. Environmental Research Letters, 19(10), 104026, 2024 [pdf]

Nina Berlin Rubin, Erica Bower, Natalie Herbert, Bianca S Santos, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi. Centering equity and sustainability in climate adaptation funding. Environmental Research: Climate, 2(3), 033001, 2023 [pdf]

Nina Berlin Rubin and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi. As California burns: the psychology of wildfire- and wildfire smoke-related migration intentions. Population and Environment, 2022 [pdf]

Gabrielle Wong-Parodi and Nina Berlin Rubin. Exploring how climate change subjective attribution, personal experience with extremes, concern, and subjective knowledge relate to pro-environmental attitudes and behavioral intentions in the United States. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2022 [pdf]

Francisca N Santana, Courtney Hammond Wagner, Nina Berlin Rubin, Laura SP Bloomfield, Erica R Bower, Stephanie L Fischer, Bianca S Santos, Gemma E Smith, Caroline T Muraida, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi. A path forward for qualitative research on sustainability in the COVID-19 pandemic. Sustainability Science, 2021 [pdf]

Nina Berlin Rubin, Leonard EG Mboera, Adriane Lesser, Marie Lynn Miranda, and Randall Kramer. Process Evaluation of a Community-Based Microbial Larviciding Intervention for Malaria Control in Rural Tanzania. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 [pdf]

Conference Presentations

2022

• Berlin Rubin, N., Garfin, D.R., and Wong-Parodi, G. Place detachment, psychological distress, and climate migration (Oral presentation). Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL.
• Berlin Rubin, N., and Wong-Parodi, G. Personal experience and threat appraisal as motivators of wildfire-associated migration intentions (Oral presentation). Natural Hazards Workshop Researchers’ Meeting, Boulder, CO.

2021

• Berlin Rubin, N., and Wong-Parodi, G. Risk appraisal and personal experience as motivators of wildfire-associated migration intentions in California (Oral presentation). Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Virtual.
• Wong-Parodi, G. and Berlin Rubin, N. Pro-environmental attitudes and behavioral intentions in the United States: Personal experience and subjective attribution to climate change (Lightning presentation). American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Virtual.

2020

• Berlin Rubin, N., Garfin, D.R., and Wong-Parodi, G. Examining adaptive migration thresholds in the context of rapid-onset climate hazards (Oral presentation). American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Virtual.
• Berlin Rubin, N., Holman, E.A., Thompson, R.R., Garfin, D.R., Silver, R.C., and Wong-Parodi, G. Severe weather-related deaths, stress, and incidence of cardiovascular ailments in U.S. community-based samples (Oral presentation). Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Invited Talks

2021

• Integrating social science with natural sciences in Gulf Coast communities and beyond (Panel presentation). State of the Coast Conference, Virtual.
• Psychosocial factors associated with wildfire smoke and COVID-19 adaptation intentions and behaviors. Political Psychology Research Group, Stanford University.

Awards and Fellowships

• Stanford University Centennial Teaching Assistant Award (2024)
• Stanford University Haas Graduate Public Service Fellowship (2021)
• Duke University Graduation with Distinction for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (2017)
• Duke University Internship Funding Program (2016)
• Duke University Stanback Fellowship Program (2015)

Academic Service and Leadership

• Graduate Student Advisory Council, Earth System Science Representative (2021-2023)
• Letters to a Pre-Scientist, Graduate Student Pen Pal (2019-2022)
• Reviewer for: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction and Environmental Research: Health

Teaching Experience

• Stanford University
  Teaching Assistant, Decision Science for Environmental Threats (ESS/EARTHSYS 227), Fall 2023 and Fall 2021.