Dr. Krys Chutko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and has been teaching at the University of Saskatchewan since 2016. Krys has been a field researcher since 1999 in a variety of fields, primarily looking at paleoenvironmental reconstructions, hydro-climatology, and the influence of land use change on terrestrial and aquatic systems. In 2018, Krys was awarded with a USSU Teaching Excellence Award.