Hilary Byerly Flint
Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources
Senior Research Scientist
Contact Information
hflint1@uwyo.edu
Education
PhD, Natural Resources, University of Vermont
MS, Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
BA, Environmental Studies & International Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder
Background and Expertise
Hilary is a Senior Research Scientist whose work centers around the social science of large landscape conservation. Her primary focus is leading a multi-year project conducting program evaluation for habitat conservation on private lands in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Hilary is trained as a behavioral scientist and uses tools from economics and conservation social science to inform and evaluate environmental programs and policies. Prior to joining the Haub School, she worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners to study how homeowners manage wildfire risk in the American West. She ran field experiments with wildfire organizations to test how changes in their programmatic outreach affected engagement among property owners in wildfire-prone areas.
Selected Publications
“.” Nielsen K.S., Marteau T., Bauer J.M., Bradbury R., Broad S., Burgess G., Burgman M., Byerly H., Clayton S., Espelosin D., Ferraro P.J., Fisher B., Garnett E., Jones J.P.G., Otieno M., Polasky S., Ricketts T.H., Trevelyan R., van der Linden S., Verissimo D., Balmford A Nature Human Behavior 5,550–556. 2021.
"" Byerly H., Ferraro P.J., Li T., Messer K.D., Weigel C One Earth, 4(4)
545–552. 2021.
"." Balmford A., Bradbury R., Bauer J.M., Broad S., Burgess G., Burgman M., Byerly H., Clayton S., Espelosin D., Ferraro P.J., Fisher B., Garnett E., Jones J.P.G., Marteau T., Otieno M., Polasky S., Ricketts T.H., Sandbrook C., Sullivan-Wiley K., Trevelyan R., van der Linden S., Verissimo D., Nielsen K.S Biological Conservation, 261. 2021.
"." Byerly H., Meldrum J., Brenkert-Smith H., Champ P., Gomez J., Falk L., Barth C. Fire, 3(4): 66. 2020.
"" Byerly H., Balmford A., Ferraro P.J., Hammond Wagner C., Palchak E., Polasky S., Ricketts T.H., Schwartz A.J., Fisher B Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 16 (3): 159-68. 2018.
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