People of Long Now

Anne Heggli is a passionate snow, water, and climate scientist focused on improving observational methods and actionable environmental data. Her work focuses on long-term monitoring of mountain hydro/biosphere systems that informs the understanding of larger scale processes and water resources. Her entrepreneurial background in international weather monitoring, hardware development, and sensor systems consulting has perfectly prepared her to advance practical climate and weather research in the academic and public agency space. Anne is also a research scientist at the Desert Research Institute, and completed her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her peer-reviewed work has been published in iScience, the Earth and Space Science Open Archive, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Western Snow Conference Proceedings. She has presented at the Southern California Academy of Sciences, the North America MtnClim Conference, Ecological Society of America, the California Cooperative Snow Survey Conference, the Airborne Snow Observatories Workshop, and the International Atmospheric River Conference. Anne has been awarded previous Fellowships by the Nevada NASA Space Grant and Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, and is a Graduate Dean’s Merit Scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno.