Cari is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Food Systems Research Center and the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. With UVM, she will be exploring how farmers perceive soil health and their capacity to improve it through management practices.

Cari’s interested in research that combines social science and ecology to understand how humans can live more sustainably, how scientists can communicate more effectively with non-scientists, and what influences the adoption of environmentally protective behaviors. Her PhD research focused on the factors that influence people to adopt sustainable behaviors in the Lake Erie region. Prior to that, her MS research examined the effect of soil nutrient availability on litter dwelling invertebrate community ecology in a wet montane forest.