Romsdahl is Associate Professor at the University of North Dakota in the Department of Earth System Science & Policy; her awards include: US National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow (2003); AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow (2005-06); US-UK Fulbright Scholar (2013-14). She has also worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US National Forest Service, the US National Park Service, and the US Global Change Research Program office.