Kathleen E. Halvorsen (born 1961)[1] is an American environmental scientist whose research interests include biofuels,[2] indigenous stewardship, public participation in land use decision-making, and climate change mitigation.
She is Associate Vice President for Research Development University Professor Chair of Natural Resource Policy at Michigan Technological University, where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of Social Sciences and the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science.
[3] Halvorsen studied the political economy of natural resources at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1989.
After earning a master's degree in environmental science at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 1992, she completed a Ph.D. in forest resource management in 1996 at the University of Washington.
[3] She joined Michigan Tech in 1995 as an instructor, became a regular-rank faculty member in 1996, and was named University Professor in 2019.