Amanda Carrico is a research assistant professor at the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy & Environment at Vanderbilt University. She also is a faculty fellow in the Climate Change Research Network at Vanderbilt, where she was a postdoctoral fellow from 2009-2012. She earned a doctoral degree in Social Psychology (2009) from Vanderbilt University; a master of arts in social psychology (2005) from Vanderbilt and a bachelor of arts (2002) from Transylvania University.

Watch video of her Feb. 11 lecture

Her talk is titled "Grasses & Gases: Psychological and Social Influences on Household Lawn Fertilizer Application and Resultant Nitrous Oxide Emissions."

When: Monday, Feb. 11; 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Where: Room 2024, Dana Building
Question-and-answer session to follow

She will discuss the Nashville Yard Project, which seeks to contribute to the development of research and education capacity of the nonprofits and community-based organizations operating in the Richland Creek watershed area in Nashville, other Nashville watersheds and other urban regions of the United States. The project aims to assist environmental activist groups, homeowners associations and other organizations to help homeowners make more environmentally friendly lawn care decisions.

About Amanda Carrico's research:
My research broadly examines the behavioral dimension of energy use and its contribution to climate change, as well as adaptation to climate change. This includes the application of psychological and behavioral theory to examine conservation and efficiency within the individual and household sector, as well as efforts to quantify the greenhouse gas emissions associated with individual and household behavior. I also have work underway to explore responses to changing environmental conditions among resource-dependent communities in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to understand the psychological and social factors that facilitate or constrain effective adaptation.