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Eve-Lyn HinckleyEnvironmental Studies Tel: 303-735-1239 |
Eve-Lyn Hinckley is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research focuses on quantifying the movement of carbon, nutrients, and water in terrestrial ecosystems, with an emphasis on how they are changed by human activities and how those changes feed back to affect human welfare. Most of Eve’s research has focused at local to regional scales in Colorado and California, often in collaboration land managers and farmers interested in using scientific findings to inform sustainable water, nutrient, and pesticide management. This foundation has informed Eve’s involvement in a new collaborative project with staff at remote ecolodges in North and South America. At locations along the American Cordillera, they are creating a rainfall chemistry observatory network with support from The National Geographic Society.
Prior to joining the faculty in 2015, Eve was a staff scientist at The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Eve remains actively involved in advising the design of the NEON Project, and exploring its synergies with research that she and her colleagues are doing at the Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) sites, and Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) sites.
In addition to her research, Eve is motivated by the challenges and rewards of exploring effective teaching practices. She emphasizes student engagement through lively discussions ranging from the details of biogeochemical cycles to historical and present day environmental issues. Eve has also invested in developing a new introductory course on quantitative methods and critical thinking for Environmental Studies majors, ENVS-1001. Eve is committed to increasing hands-on research opportunities for undergraduates on campus and at CU’s long-term research sites in the Colorado Front Range.
