Corrie Knapp

Education

PhD, Human Ecology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
MS, Rangeland Ecology, Colorado State University
BA, Literature & Writing, University of Colorado Denver

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Background and Expertise

Corrine Noel Knapp (Corrie) is an Associate Professor in the Haub School. She was a founding member of the Masters of Environmental Management Program at Western Colorado University where she directed the Integrative & Public Land Management track, which had a 95% placement rate in environmental jobs. Her research interests are at the confluence of rural livelihoods, conservation, and climate change. She has a deep commitment and passion for Western landscapes, rangelands, and the human and ecological communities that depend on them. She is interdisciplinary by training and practice and enjoys partnering with communities to answer real world problems.  Her current projects include understanding how changing water availability impacts Wyoming communities (WyACT project), how we can help communities towards equitable and sustainable transformations, and how to create actionable and useful information for adaptation in her with Western Water Assessment (NOAA funded) and the North Central Climate Science Adaptation Center (DOI funded).

 

Prior to returning to school for her graduate studies, she worked for several non-profits (Denver Urban Gardens, Colorado Environmental Coalition, Center for Native Ecosystems), in agricultural production (Organic farm co-manager, ranch-hand), in public service (Denver Public Library, Fraser Public Library) and in environmental education (National Park Service, Snow Mountain Ranch). She brings these diverse work experiences into case studies in the classroom and concrete career advice for students. She chooses to be a professor because it allows her to work one-one with students, challenge them to be engaged citizens, and contribute to the resilience of communities and ecosystems.  

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Teaching

Dr. Knapp has taught a wide variety of courses, including Introduction to Environment & Sustainability, Integrative Skills for Environmental Management, Public Land Management, National Environmental Policy Act for Environmental Managers, Sustainable Rangeland Social-Ecological Systems, Social Science for Environmental Management, and the Science of Climate Change, Adaptation & Mitigation. At University of Wyoming, she teaches graduate and undergraduate sections of Environmental Assessment, as well as Orientation to Environment, Natural Resources and Society, and Climate Change Responses.

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Selected Publications

Rebecca Witinok-Huber*, Corrine N. Knapp, Jewell Lund*, Weston Eaton, Brent E. Ewers, Anderson R. de Figueiredo, Bart Geerts, Clare I. Gunshenan, Martha C. Inouye, Mary L. Keller, Nichole M. Lumadue, Caitlin M. Ryan, Bryan N. Shuman, Tarissa Spoonhunter, and David G. Williams. 2025. Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity?: A framework for evaluation. Environmental Science & Policy. Online at:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104008 

 

Emily Donaldson*, H. Wilmer, J. Derner and C. Knapp. 2025.  Understanding How Ranchers Adaptively Manage for Drought in Northeastern Colorado Journal of Rangeland Management, Online at:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2024.08.026 

 

Amanda Cravens, K. Clifford, C. Knapp and W. Travis. 2024.  The dynamic feasibility of resisting (R), accepting (A) or directing (D) ecological change Conservation Biology, e14331. 

 

Knapp, C.N., D.R. Kluck, G. Guntenspergen, M.A. Ahlering, N.M. Aimone, A. Bamzai-Dodson, A. Basche, R.G. Byron, O. Conroy-Ben, M.N. Haggerty, T.R. Haigh, C. Johnson, B. Mayes Boustead, N.D. Mueller, J.P. Ott, G.B. Paige, K.R. Ryberg, G.W. Schuurman, and S.G. Tangen. 2023.Ch. 25. Northern Great Plains. In: Fifth National Climate Assessment. Crimmins, A.R., C.W. Avery, D.R. Easterling, K.E. Kunkel, B.C. Stewart, and T.K. Maycock, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA. https://doi.org/10.7930/NCA5.2023.CH25 

 

Shelley Crausbay, B. Chaffin, K. Clifford, A. Cravens, J. Gross, C. Knapp, D. Lawrence, D. Magness, A. Miller-Rushing, G. Schuurman, H. Sofaer, and C. Stevens-Rumann. 2021. A science agenda to support natural resource management decisions in a non-stationary world. Bioscience, biab102, Online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab102  

 

Clifford, K., A. Cravens and C. Knapp. 2021. Responding to ecological transformation: mental models, external constraints and manager decision-making Bioscience, biab086, Online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab086