Education
Ph.D. Iowa State University, 2019
M.S. University of Michigan, 2013
B.S. Iowa State University, 2011

Awards/Special Recognition

• Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award, Iowa State University, 2016
• Natural Resource Ecology & Management Graduate Student Organization Outstanding Teaching Award, Iowa State University, 2016
• NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award, International Association of Landscape Ecologists (IALE), 2016
• Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan, 2012

Teaching Responsibilities
GLOBE 120. Geography of Global Resource Systems
GLOBE 211. Issues in Global Resource Systems
GLOBE 303. Agriculture, Food and Natural Global Resource Systems
GLOBE 304. Socio-Economic Global Resource Systems
GLOBE 401/401H. Senior Project/Senior Project, Honors
GLOBE 402. Responses to Global Resource System Challenges
GLOBE 494B. Service Learning: Domestic
GLOBE 496. Global Resource Systems Study Abroad

Global Engagement 
Emily serves as a co-instructor in several Global Resource Systems’ courses, co-advises the Learning Community, and advises the campus chapter of UNICEF. Her curiosity and passion for natural resource systems, environment, agriculture, and food systems has led her to research and teaching opportunities across the world, including in Italy, Liberia, China, Peru, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Emily is involved in teaching as research (TAR) in the GLOBE program, and she is engaged in scholarship related to her technical interests in ecosystem service tradeoffs and opportunities in working, agricultural landscapes.