Kristin Floress, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Matthew M. Smith, Kristin Floress, Gary Bentrup, Mark Batcheler, Katherine MacFarland, Todd Kellerman, Lord Ameyaw. 2026. Riparian forest buffers in the United States: Results from the National Agroforestry Producer Survey
• Matthew M. Smith, Kristin Floress, Mark Batcheler, Gary Bentrup, Katherine MacFarland, Todd Kellerman, Lord Ameyaw. 2026. Silvopasture in the United States: Results from the National Agroforestry Producer Survey
• Kristin Floress, Jenna Zukswert. 2026. Leveraging Generative AI for Landscape Planning
• Ishraq Awashra, Aaron W. Thompson, Kristin Floress, J.Gordon Arbuckle, Sarah P. Church, Ken Genskow, Linda S. Prokopy, Yichao Rui, Omar Tesdell. 2025. Generative AI text-to-image for community participation in landscape planning
• Lauren Asprooth, J. Gordon Arbuckle, Rebecca Traldi, Sarah P. Church, Kristin Floress, Benjamin M. Gramig, Andrew J. Margenot, Elizabeth T. Maynard, Aaron W. Thompson, Ariana P. Torres, Emily M. Usher, Ishraq Awashra, Katherine Pivaral, Finnleigh S. Woodings, Linda S. Prokopy. 2025. To diversify or not to diversify: a preliminary report on farmers’ perspectives on diversification in the U.S. Midwest
• Patrick T. Oelschlager, Aaron W. Thompson, Kristin Floress, Ishraq Awashra, David Barbarash, Jacob Battista, Sara McMillan. 2025. Modeling nonlinear edge-of-field buffers to enhance sediment trapping efficiency: application of AgBufferBuilder in the Saginaw Bay basin
• Datu Buyung Agusdinata, Muhammad Hanif, Rachael Shwom, David Watkins, Kristin Floress, Cara Cuite, Kathleen E. Halvorsen. 2024. Effectiveness of conservation messages to reduce households' GHG emissions: A serious-gaming experiment
• Sonya Ahamed, Chelsea Schelly, Kristin Floress, William Lytle, Holly Caggiano, Cara L. Cuite, Charles Wallace, Ryan Cook, Rebekah Jarvis, Rachael Shwom, David Watkins. 2023. 'Being able to work has kept our life fairly constant:' reconciling social practice models to assess the impact of (infra)structural inequities on household wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Holly Caggiano, Sonya Ahamed, William Lytle, Chelsea Schelly, Kristin Floress, Cara L. Cuite, Rachael Shwom. 2023. Green roles at home: exploring the impact of household social dynamic processes on consumption at the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus
• Brett J. Butler, Sarah M. Butler, Kristin Floress. 2023. Studies of Family Forest Owners in the USA: A Systematic Review of Literature from 2000 through 2019
• Junyu Lu, Pranay Ranjan, Kristin Floress, J.G. Arbuckle, Sarah P. Church, Francis R. Eanes, Yuling Gao, Benjamin M. Gramig, Ajay S. Singh, Linda S. Prokopy. 2022. A meta-analysis of agricultural conservation intentions, behaviors, and practices: Insights from 35 years of quantitative literature in the United States
• Pranay Kumar, Holly Caggiano, Cara Cuite, Clinton J. Andrews, Frank A. Felder, Rachael Shwom, Kristin Floress, Sonya Ahamed, Chelsea Schelly. 2022. Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes
• Kristin Floress, Alice Cohen. 2022. Pandemic-era Participation in Public Lands Governance: Lessons From the USDA Forest Service
• Aslihan Arslan, Kristin Floress, Christine Lamanna, Leslie Lipper, Todd S. Rosenstock. 2022. A meta-analysis of the adoption of agricultural technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Arne Arnberger, Paul H. H. Gobster, Ingrid E. Schneider, Kristin Floress, Anna L. Haines, Renate Eder. 2022. Landowner Acceptability of Silvicultural Treatments to Restore an Open Forest Landscape
• Pranay Ranjan, J. Gordon Arbuckle, Sarah P. Church, Francis R. Eanes, Kristin Floress, Yuling Gao, Benjamin M. Gramig, Ajay S. Singh, Linda S. Prokopy. 2022. Understanding the relationship between land tenure and conservation behavior: Recommendations for social science research
• Paul H. H. Gobster, Ella Weber, Kristin Floress, Ingrid E. Schneider, Anna L. Haines, Arne Arnberger. 2022. Place, loss, and landowner response to the restoration of a rapidly changing forest landscape
• Kristin Floress, Rachael Shwom, Holly Caggiano, Jacob Slattery, Cara Cuite, Chelsea Schelly, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, William Lytle. 2022. Habitual food, energy, and water consumption behaviors among adults in the United States: Comparing models of values, norms, and identity
• Stephanie Snyder, Kristin Floress, Melinda Vokoun. 2022. Does having a hunter identity influence land management behaviors of family forest owners?
• William Lytle, Chelsea Schelly, Kristin Floress, Rachael L. Shwom, Kathleen E. Halvorsen. 2021. Environmental Decision-Making Shaped by the Home: Situating Consumption in the Household
• Paul H. H. Gobster, Arne Arnberger, Ingrid E. Schneider, Kristin Floress, Anna L. Haines, Michael J. Dockry, Claire Benton. 2021. Restoring a "scenically challenged" landscape: Landowner preferences for pine barrens treatment practices
• Mysha Clarke, Zhao Ma, Stephanie Snyder, Kristin Floress. 2021. Factors Influencing Family Forest Owners' Interest in Community-led Collective Invasive Plant Management
• Andrew Kliskey, Paula Williams, David L. Griffith, Virginia H. Dale, Chelsea Schelly, Anna-Maria Marshall, Valoree S. Gagnon, Weston M. Eaton, Kristin Floress. 2021. Thinking Big and Thinking Small: A Conceptual Framework for Best Practices in Community and Stakeholder Engagement in Food, Energy, and Water Systems
• Sarah P. Church, Kristin Floress, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Chloe B. Wardropper, Pranay Ranjan, Weston M. Eaton, Stephen Gasteyer, Adena Rissman. 2021. How water quality improvement efforts influence urban–agricultural relationships
• Paul H. H. Gobster, Ingrid E. Schneider, Kristin Floress, Anna L. Haines, Arne Arnberger, Michael J. Dockry, Claire Benton. 2021. Understanding the key characteristics and challenges of pine barrens restoration: insights from a Delphi survey of forest land managers and researchers
• Stephanie Snyder, Zhao Ma, Kristin Floress, Mysha Clarke. 2020. Relationships between absenteeism, conservation group membership, and land management among family forest owners
• Kristin Floress, Sonya Sachdeva. 2019. Novel and Controversial Methods in the Social Sciences: Introduction to Special Issue
• L.S. Prokopy, Kristin Floress, J.G. Arbuckle, S.P. Church, F.R. Eanes, Y. Gao, B.M. Gramig, P. Ranjan, A.S. Singh. 2019. Adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States: Evidence from 35 years of quantitative literature
• Mark E. Burbach, Kristin Floress, Linda Stalker Prokopy. 2019. Catalyzing Change: Social Science for Water Resources Management
• Kristin Floress, Aaron Thompson, Cherie LeBlanc Fisher. 2019. Assessing Principles of Good Governance: The Case of Lake Wausau, Wisconsin
• Emily S. S. Huff, Kristin Floress, Stephanie Snyder, Zhao Ma, Sarah Butler. 2019. Where farm and forest meet: Comparing National Woodland Owner Survey respondents with and without farmland
• Pranay Ranjan, Sarah P. Church, Kristin Floress, Linda S. Prokopy. 2019. Synthesizing Conservation Motivations and Barriers: What Have We Learned from Qualitative Studies of Farmers' Behaviors in the United States?
• Kristin Floress, Melinda Vokoun, Emily Silver Huff, Melissa Baker. 2019. Public perceptions of county, state, and national forest management in Wisconsin, USA
• Mysha Clarke, Zhao Ma, Stephanie Snyder, Kristin Floress. 2019. What are family forest owners thinking and doing about invasive plants?
• Kristin Floress, Emily S. S. Huff, Stephanie Snyder, Alanna Koshollek, Sarah Butler, Shorna B. Allred. 2019. Factors associated with family forest owner actions: A vote-count meta-analysis.Landscape and Urban Planning
• Kristin Floress, Stephanie Connolly, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Amanda Egan, Thomas M. Schuler, Amy Hill, Philip DeSenze, Scott Fenimore, Kent Karriker. 2018. Implementing Landscape Scale Conservation across Organizational Boundaries: Lessons from the Central Appalachian Region, United States
• Kristin Floress, Anna Haines, Emily Usher, Paul H. H. Gobster, Mike Dockry. 2018. Landowner and visitor response to forest landscape restoration: the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Lakewood Southeast Project
• Kristin Floress, Adam Reimer, Aaron Thompson, Mark Burbach, Cody Knutson, Linda Prokopy, Marc Ribaudo, Jessica Ulrich-Schad. 2018. Measuring farmer conservation behaviors: Challenges and best practices
• Kristin Floress, Mary Beth Kolozsvary, Jean Mangun. 2017. Expert Perceptions of Approaches to Protecting Isolated Wetlands in the Northeastern United States
• Kristin Floress, Silvestre García de Jalón, Sarah P. Church, Nicholas Babin, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Linda S. Prokopy. 2017. Toward a theory of farmer conservation attitudes: Dual interests and willingness to take action to protect water quality
• Paul H. H. Gobster, Kristin Floress, Lynne M. Westphal, Cristy A. Watkins, Joanne Vining, Alaka Wali. 2016. Resident and user support for urban natural areas restoration practices
• Kristin Floress, Kofi Akamani, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Andrew T. Kozich, Mae Davenport. 2015. The role of social science in sucessfully implementing watershed management strategies

• Project
  

  Assessing Fire’s Impacts and Benefits from Pine Wood Restoration and Fuel Treatments

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-pine-wood-restoration
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  Chicago Urban Field Station

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/centers/chicago
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Program
  

  People and Their Environments: Social Science Supporting Natural Resource Management and Policy

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/programs/socialscience
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Synthesis of Baseline Acceptance, Research Needs and Priorities Related to Wildfire

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-synthesis-acceptance-research-needs-priorities-wildfire
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Identifying and Assessing Needs, Values, Capacities and Future Landscape Visions to Inform Collaborative Wildfire Risk Reduction Strategies

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-needs-values-capacities-visions-wildfire-risk-reduction
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Aligning Criteria, Indicators, and Metrics for the Wildfire Crisis Strategy

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-aligning-criteria-wildfire-crisis-strategy
  Station

  Northern Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Leveraging generative AI for landscape planning

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/articles/leveraging-generative-ai-landscape-planning

Other Publications

• Notes
  

  Slide deck: Session 1 (Floress) - Restoring an open forest ecosystem in the context of public expectations

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/understory/slide-deck-session-1-floress-restoring-open-forest-ecosystem-context-public

Multimedia

• Webinars
  

  Social Aspects of Wildfire Crisis Work

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/social-aspects-wildfire-crisis-work
• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Assessments: Science for forest planning

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-assessments-science-forest-planning
• Webinars

  Restoring an open forest ecosystem in the context of public expectations: Social science research supporting the Lakewood Southeast Project

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/products/multimedia/webinars/restoring-open-forest-ecosystem-context-public-expectations-social

• Purdue University, Ph.D., Natural Resources Social Science, 2008
• Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, M.S. Forestry, Human Dimensions of Watershed Management, 2004