Dr. Kyle Bocinsky is an assistant research professor in the Department of Society and Conservation and the Director of Climate Extension for the Montana Climate Office, housed in the WA Franke College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana. He serves users of climate data and information in Montana, including outreach supporting agriculture, forestry, recreation, and urban and rural resilience planning, with a special emphasis on partnering with Native Nations to meet their climate resilience goals. Kyle is an anthropological archaeologist who specializes in cross-disciplinary, computational approaches to studying resilience in socio-ecological systems, with a focus on high-elevation arid agricultural systems. In addition to his positions at UMT, Kyle holds an appointment with the Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada. He loves living in the Northern Rockies — and especially being outdoors with his husband, daughters, and dogs year round.

Research interests:

• human dimensions of climate change
• computational social science
• paleo-environments complex systems
• plant and animal domestication
• Indigenous ecologies
• reproducibility