Director, Center for Ecological Planning and Design, College of Architecture + Planning
Associate Director, Global Change and Sustainability Center
Research Assistant Professor, City & Metropolitan Planning

sarah.hinners@utah.edu

Professional Membership

• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Member, Ecological Society of America, 01/01/2001

Presentations

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER: The Landscape Lab: Exploring social, ecological, and technological adaptation to water scarcity and climate change through stormwater management at the University of Utah. American Association of Geographers Annual Conference., 02/28/2022 CANADA GERMANY NEW ZEALAND UNITED KINGDOM
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER: “Resilience in the Face of Change” Keynote, Salt Lake County Watershed Symposium. , 11/17/2021
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon and the built environment: becoming net negative? AIA Utah webinar, 12/30/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Campus as a Living Lab: embedded research for sustainability innovation in the built environment. Global Change and Sustainability Center seminar series, University of Utah, 11/03/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: People, Place, Design: Social and ecological perspectives on stormwater green infrastructure for urban landscapes in the semi-arid west. Environmental Engineering seminar series, U. of Nevada Reno, 02/07/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: People, Place, Design: Can we achieve thriving, life-sustaining urban landscapes in the hot, dry west? Natural History Museum of Utah Science Salon, 01/12/2020
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Ecology and Buildings” ASHRAE Student Chapter presentation, U. of Utah , 11/2019
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Foundations of a Green Infrastructure Research Network Along Red Butte Creek and Beyond (poster) with Diane Pataki and Rose Smith, at the Red Butte Creek Symposium, Salt Lake City, December 2018., 12/05/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: “Portals: Investigations in Pollinators, Process, Planning, People & Place” in the Investigating Careers in the Environment seminar series, University of Colorado Boulder, October 2018., 10/16/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: “Rediscovery and Revitalization of Red Butte Creek Through Integrated Processes of Science, Planning, and Design” at the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Snowbird, Utah, June 2018., 06/04/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: “Integrating ‘Ways of Knowing’ and ‘Ways of Doing’ to Develop an Ecological Planning Approach to Urban Wildlife” at The International Urban Wildlife Conference, San Diego, June 4-7 2017., 06/06/2017

Internal Service

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER: Red Butte Creek Committee, 07/01/2018
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Center for Ecological Planning and Design, 07/01/2017
• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES: Global Change and Sustainability Center, 07/01/2017

External Service

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | WATER: Red Butte Creek Symposium, 12/05/2018

Professional Service

• WATER: Jordan River Blueprint Update, Salt Lake County, 01/01/2020-12/31/2021