Natalie Hunt

Natalie Hunt
Teaching Assistant Professor
She/her
[email protected]
BioAgEng Building

1390 Eckles Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108
United States

Experts@Minnesota profile
Education
  • B.S. Environmental Sciences - University of Iowa
  • M.S. Water Resources Management - University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • PhD Environment & Resources - University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • PhD Forestry - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Areas of Interest

Food Systems, Systems Thinking, Alternative Cropping Systems, Life Cycle Analysis, Sustainability Literacy, Quantitative Literacy, Cropping System Diversification

Teaching

  • BBE3201 Sustainability of Food Systems, A Life Cycle Perspective
  • SSM 4506W Sustainable Systems Management Capstone
  • ESPM3607 Natural Resources Consumption & Sustainability

Research

USDA National Institute of Food & Agriculture: #DiverseCornBelt: Enhancing rural resilience through landscape diversity in the Midwest. I am the Education's team lead, where we will develop educational modules aligning with research objectives and research outcomes.

 

Select Publications

  • Prokopy, L.S., Gramig, B.M., Bower, A., Church, S.P., Ellison, B., Gassman, P.W., Genskow, K., Gucker, D., Hallett, S.G., Hill, J., Hunt, N., Johnson, K.A., Kaplan, I., Kelleher, J.P., Kok, H., Komp, M., Lammers, P., LaRose, S., Liebman, M., Margenot, A. & 12 others. (2020) “The urgency of transforming the Midwestern U.S. landscape into more than corn and soybean” Agriculture and Human Values. 37, 3, p. 537-539.
  • Hunt, N.D., Liebman, M., Thakrar, S., Hill, J.D. (2020) “Fossil energy use, climate change impacts, and air quality-related human health damages of conventional and diversified cropping systems in Iowa, USA” Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b06929
  • Hill, J.D., Goodkind, A., Tessum, C., Thakrar, S., Tilman, D., Polasky, S., Smith T., Hunt, N., Mullins, K., Clark, M., Marshall, J. (2019) “Air-quality related health damages of maize” Nature Sustainability. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0261-y
  • Hunt, N.D., J.D. Hill, M. Liebman. (2019) “Cropping system diversity effects on nutrient discharge, soil erosion, and agronomic performance” Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b02193
  • Hunt, N.D., J.D. Hill, M. Liebman. (2017) “Reducing freshwater toxicity while maintaining weed control, profits, and productivity: effects of increased crop rotation diversity and reduced herbicide usage” Environmental Science & Technology 51(3): 1707-1717.