Karlyn Eckman

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 Native Shoreland Buffer Incentives project, funded by the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund.

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 natural resources projects with smaller target audiences. Eckman also 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.