Hunter T. Snyder

Hunter Snyder is an American scientist whose work in the Arctic addresses human behavior in fisheries and energy policy and planning. He is a Research Scientist at the Thayer School of Engineering and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College.

Broadly, his research uses concepts from the behavioral sciences to improve our knowledge about how people make decisions. Specifically, he studies energy use in fisheries and fishing communities, and he develops tools to address regulatory and human behavioral barriers to reducing energy consumption.