Senior Scientist, The Nature Conservancy Central Science Program

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Affiliate Assistant Professor, Univerisity of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

e-mail: egirvetz@tnc.org or girvetz@u.washington.edu phone: 206-579-4640   CV: pdf format

Brief Biography

Evan Girvetz is a senior scientist with The Nature Conservancy’s Global Climate Change Program. He provides expert support on climate change impacts and ecosystem-based adaptation to Conservancy programs and project teams. He also co-leads the development of the Climate Wizard (http://ClimateWizard.org), an online tool that allows non-climate specialists to explore climate change maps and analyses.

Research Interests

Evan's interests lie in developing tools and methods for ecosystem based adaptation to climate change. He is a lead developer of the web-mapping climate change analysis tool Climate Wizard (http://ClimateWizard.org), and works on finding ways to best assess climate change impacts for supporting the development of strategies for adaptating to climate change.

His other research interests include landscape habitat modeling, habitat fragmentation/connectivity analysis, geographic Information Systems (GIS), and population viability analysis.

Education

B.S., Evolution and Ecology, minor in Mathematics, minor in Philosophy, University of California, Davis (1998)

Ph.D., Graduate Group in Ecology, University of California, Davis (2007)