Areas of interest:听American West; decision making and uncertainty; climate change; land and water resources; environmental justice, environmental knowledge
Faculty Advisor:听William Travis
Katie is a human-environment geographer who focuses on climate, hazards, governance, justice, and environmental knowledge in the American West. Broadly, she asks how maladaptive environmental policies may hinder adaptation, exacerbate inequalities, and compromise socioecological sustainability. Specifically, her research explores the consequences of how we measure, monitor, and manage cross-border, multi-scalar, spatiotemporally complex environmental issues in an era of climate change.听 Combining spatial analysis and qualitative methods, she analyzes how EPA regulations shaped monitoring systems to inadvertently miss signals and emerging hazards that would alert agencies to a changing environment, undermining environmental governance. Further, through a number of interdisciplinary collaborations, Katie has developed a second, active area of community-engaged research working with a broad range of stakeholders to develop local climate adaptation strategies and envision a broad range of future conditions. Katie received a bachelors in Environmental Studies at Macalester College and her masters and doctorate in Geography at CU 麻豆影院
