Penelope Hunter

Penelope Hunter, MS, is a Research Scientist in the GEMS Informatics Center at the University of Minnesota. Her work focuses on greenhouse gas accounting for agricultural and environmental systems, including validating carbon coefficients and running process-based models such as DayCent to support county-level climate planning. She holds a master’s degree in Ecosystem Science and Sustainability from Colorado State University. Her research there includes applied machine learning and geospatial analysis to U.S. crop production and to supply risk in coastal agricultural regions facing sea-level rise. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Environmental Studies from Macalester College.