Karlyn Eckman

Senior Research Associate

Phone: 612-625-6781

E-mail: eckma001@umn.edu

Karlyn Eckman is the principal investigator for the DNR Native Shoreland Buffer Incentives (NSBI) project, funded by the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. She also provides support to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and local partners in social impact evaluation and civic engagement efforts. 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 natural resources projects. Eckman has conducted about twenty KAP studies in Minnesota on a variety of issues, including residential stormwater management, shoreland buffers, invasive species, winter road maintenance, manure management planning and irrigation practices.

Eckman is a member of the WRS and NRSM graduate faculties, and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Forest Resources and Hydrology.

Eckman advises on community-based water and forestry programs and research in developing countries, specializing in agroforestry and food production systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast-Asia and the Caribbean.

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.