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Berkeley, CA, US

Berkeley, CA, US

• Leading the research, strategic direction, and communications of a university institute to advance science and solutions to halt climate change and conserve biodiversity in national parks.
• Conducting research on climate change and ecological impacts across 29 U.S. national parks. Helping National Park Service staff apply the results to improve resilience of park ecosystems under climate change and.
• Collaborated on research analyzing climate and vegetation to produce a web site tool that enables natural resource managers in California identify locations to collect plant seeds resilient to projected climate change.
• Produced a comprehensive scientific assessment of climate change and forest carbon for a proposed national park in Romania, through a systematic assessment of published scientific research and original spatial analyses.
• Communicating the science of climate change and solutions in a column in the publication Parks Stewardship Forum.
• Strengthening California policies on climate change and biodiversity conservation by providing scientific advice and guidance to the state government.

Berkeley, CA, US

• Advancing science and solutions for anthropogenic climate change through research, publication of new scientific insights, assistance to natural resource managers, advice to policymakers, and communication on climate.
• Advanced climate change science as an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author, through comprehensive assessment of published research on climate change, ecosystems, and carbon, and collaboration with.
• In collaboration with colleagues, published research on drought-induced tree mortality globally.
• In collaboration with colleagues, published analyses of field data of trees across the African Sahel, finding eight species at risk of population extirpations and higher regeneration in government protected areas.
• Leading a team conducting research to identify areas in Yosemite and other national parks at high risk of wildfire and biome shifts under climate change, to help prioritize areas for proactive fire management.
• Helping train future climate change professionals through development and teaching of a new college course on climate change science, ecosystems, and energy and carbon solutions.

• Advised staff of the President and Vice President of the United States and other officials responsible for national decisions on the environment, energy, and natural resources.
• Provided key scientific advice to develop and implement U.S. national policies, including executive orders, legislation, and federal agency plans, to cut the greenhouse gas emissions from human activities that cause.
• With colleagues on the Wildland Fire Leadership Council, contributed to potentially reducing wildfire risk under climate change and cutting greenhouse gas emissions, by integrating climate change science, for the first.
• With a team of colleagues, contributed to potentially reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental damage of cryptocurrency, by assembling essential information on climate change, energy, and environmental.
• Strengthened U.S. efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050, through scientific advice and guidance on plans to monitor greenhouse gas emissions and removals, for the Interagency Working Group on.
• Provided scientific advice and guidance for U.S. national policies on halting tropical deforestation, developing a national service for climate information, and launching a national biodiversity assessment.

Washington, D.C., US

• Led climate change science for the U.S. National Park Service, conducting research and helping managers apply the results to protect globally unique ecosystems.
• Revealed that anthropogenic climate change has exposed the U.S. national parks to twice the heating of the U.S. as a whole and more extensive aridity, by leading a team of researchers, publishing the first spatial.
• Comprehensively identified the effects of climate change in U.S. national parks though publication of the first science assessment of observed impacts and projected risks of climate change across all the national parks.
• As coordinating lead author, led a team of 14 scientists from universities and other institutions to produce the Southwest Chapter of the 2018 U.S. National Climate Assessment.
• With colleagues, published the first global spatial analysis of risks of invasive species under climate change.
• Researched and translated climate change science for national park managers, producing 38 park-specific climate change technical reports or summaries of locally relevant information.

Washington, D.C., US

• Established and led a new climate change science area of work for the U.S. National Park Service.
• Advanced climate change science as an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author and contributing author, through comprehensive assessment of published research on climate change, ecosystems, and carbon, and.
• With colleagues, published the first spatial analysis of the vulnerability of ecosystems to vegetation biome shifts due to climate change and to habitat loss due to land use, identifying high risk areas and potential.
• Revealed that ecosystems across the State of California have been losing more carbon, primarily in wildfires, than they have been gaining, primarily in vegetation growth, by leading a team of researchers to publish the.
• Researched and translated climate change science for national park managers, producing 310 park-specific climate change technical reports or summaries of locally relevant information.
• Contributed to effective conservation in national parks through individual assistance to field staff of 222 parks, helping them use my published data on climate change to improve the resilience of fire management.

Berkeley, CA, US

• Advanced action to halt climate change and deforestation through research and publication of new scientific insights on ecological impacts and carbon solutions.
• Revealed a global impact of climate change through leadership of a team of scientists to publish the first analysis showing that anthropogenic climate change has caused vegetation biome shifts in tropical, temperate.
• Revealed a severe impact of climate change by leading a team of researchers to publish the first detection of tree mortality and a vegetation biome shift across the African Sahel and attribution of the cause to.
• Contributed to local efforts to reduce tropical deforestation through leadership of a team to publish research quantifying previously unknown forest carbon densities and biodiversity in a rainforest in the Peruvian.
• Contributed to tropical forest restoration efforts through scientific reviews of forest carbon projects under the Clean Development Mechanism of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.
• Found high ecosystem carbon in Sierra Nevada and redwood forests in California by leading a team of researchers to publish analyses of forest carbon densities and uncertainties, from remote sensing and field data.

Arlington, VA, US

• Led forest carbon science (6 years) and all climate change science (1½ years) for the Nature Conservancy, conducting research and translating scientific results for 50 U.S. state programs and 34 country programs.
• Advanced forest carbon science as an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author, through development of international standard methods and compilation of data that countries use to quantify forest carbon.
• Developed a new method to quantify baseline forest carbon for reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) projects, by leading three multidisciplinary teams to quantify changes in biodiversity and.
• Improved the landscape conservation planning process by introducing, for the first time, consideration of climate change, integrating downscaled climate change data into conservation planning.
• Assembled essential information on climate change science to advise managers and senior leaders.
• Contributed to conservation of the Canada lynx by leading a team that spatially analyzed projected habitat changes under climate change, used to help identify critical habitat under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

Reston, VA, US

• Contributed to improving food security across 18 countries in Africa by coordinating a team of scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and.
• Advanced climate change science as an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author, through comprehensive assessment of published research on climate change and ecosystems in Africa and collaboration with.
• Published the first scientific field research to detect a vegetation biome shift in Sénégal, West Africa, attribute the cause to anthropogenic climate change, and quantify the potential for natural regeneration of.
• Added long-term environmental change into FEWS NET food security monitoring by integrating, for the first time, information on desertification and climate change.
• Assisted in an interdisciplinary monitoring system of field observations, agricultural reports, and satellite data, including the remote sensing-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI).
• Provided scientific guidance on ecological monitoring, desertification, and climate change to African staff.

Washington, DC, US

• Provided scientific advice and guidance in climate change, biodiversity conservation, tropical forest ecology, and community-based natural resource management to projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and to.
• Monitored and evaluated effectiveness of results of the Biodiversity Support Program, a collaboration of the World Wildlife Fund, the Nature Conservancy, and World Resources Institute.
• Evaluated effectiveness of field results of natural resource management projects in Africa, including the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE), Zimbabwe, and the Senegal Reforestation.
• Worked with Peace Corps volunteers to monitor impacts of deforestation in Gabon.

• Led technical development of a new geographic area for a community-based natural resource management project in West Africa, implemented by Silvi Nova and the U.N. Development Programme, funded by the Swedish.
• Led technical development of a new geographic area for a community-based natural resource management project in West Africa.
• Conducted interdisciplinary environmental and socioeconomic assessments with rural villages using participatory rural appraisal.
• Developed village land-use management plans to address desertification.
• Surveyed survival rates of previous reforestation projects.
• Surveyed illegal deforestation of the Réserve Sylvo-Pastorale de Mbégué.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Lived with a family in a subsistence farming village in West Africa and helped 14 villages to protect and restore the vegetation cover in a semi-arid land degraded by drought.
• Contributed to resource conservation and people’s livelihoods through village and individual work to establish 15 hectares of natural regeneration of local trees, nursery production of 5600 trees, 3.8 hectares of tree.
• Re-directed work from massive plantation of non-native species, which required hard labor and wasted precious drinking water on irrigation, to natural regeneration of local trees, a traditional practice to protect.
• Collected and shared seeds of local tree species.
• Secured funding for repair of one water well.
• Led a survey of tree survival rates of six years of forestry work of a U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization project.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Energy And Resources

Master Of Science - Ms, Environmental Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Natural Resources