- Campuses :
- Twin Cities
- Crookston
- Duluth
- Morris
- Rochester
- Other Locations
The Water Resources Center is affiliated with the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences and University of Minnesota Extension.
Karlyn Eckman
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Senior Fellow Phone: 612-625-6781 E-mail: eckma001@umn.edu |
Karlyn Eckman participates in a regional effort to develop and test a framework of socioeconomic indicators for nonpoint source pollution projects. This effort is funded by the USEPA and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Eckman is also the principal investigator for the DNR-funded Native Shoreland Buffer Incentives project.
Eckman is a member of the WRS and NRSM graduate faculties, and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Forest Resources and Hydrology. She is also a commissioner (representing the City of Saint Paul) on the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization. Current areas of work and research focus on evaluation research, including the design and testing of a new KAP (knowledge, attitudes and practices) evaluation tool for smaller natural resources projects. Eckman also advises on community-based water and forestry programs and research in developing countries. She has an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Forestry and Watershed Management from the University of Minnesota.
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