Laurie Kutner is a Library Associate Professor at the University of Vermont who has a secondary faculty appointment in the UVM Environmental Program.  She is an Information and Instruction Librarian who is the subject specialist that supports the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Environmental Studies, Geography and Geosciences, Anthropology, and Global and Regional Studies.

As a specialist in environmental information, Professor Kutner focuses on the inherently interdisciplinary nature of environmental research.  She is interested in disparities in information access and production of scholarship on a global scale, and the implications of this within a broad environmental/ sustainability context.  She is affiliated with the Monteverde Institute in Costa Rica, has built digital collections that provide access to research-based materials generated there, and contributes to their educational mission through instruction regarding information equity issues from a Latin American vantage point. She advises on administration of their library.

Professor Kutner works with graduate students in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Gund community to support their research and information needs, as they progress through their graduate programs and in-depth thesis/dissertation research.