Sandra Brown

About Sandra Brown

I have more than 30 years of experience with work on the role of tropical forests in the global carbon budget, the impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems, the present and potential future role of terrestrial ecosystems for mitigation of climate change, and design and implementation of methods and procedures for estimating carbon emissions and removals for REDD+ activities. I provide leadership and expertise to many national and international organizations in the field of land use/land cover change and its relation to climate change and mitigation. I have successfully led over 40 projects for a variety of US governmental, multilateral, and non-profit donors, including the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, The Nature Conservancy, and several national governments.I have served served on many international and national panels and reports related to climate change mitigation, land use and forestry. I have published more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and books. I have served as a co-convening lead author for five IPCC Reports for which I co-led a team of experts representing many countries, sub-disciplines, and points of view and for which I received recognition from the Nobel Prize winning IPCC in 2007,

Experience

1. Senior Scientist, Environment Group

   Winrock International

   Aug 1998 — Present

   I have led a team of 12 highly qualified staff and together we provide leadership and expertise to many national and international organizations on: developing methods and data bases for key forest carbon pools; conducting feasibility studies for climate change mitigation programs; developing methodologies and standards for voluntary forest carbon projects; training developing country NGOs to conduct forest carbon assessments and data analysis; developing a variety of calculators and tools for carbon assessments; and apprising policy-makers of the technical and scientific issues, challenges, and capabilities related to the REDD+ mechanism.The recently handed over the Director role (March 2014) but remain the chief scientist and am actively involved in many of the ECO team key projects. As of March 16, 2015 I now work only 25% of my time for Winrock so I can pursue other activities.

Education

• University of Nottingham

  Bachelor's Degree

  1963 — 1967

• University of Florida

  PhD

  1974 — 1978

Skills

• Gis
• Redd
• Ngos
• Environmental Issues
• Carbon Cycle of Tropical Forests
• Remote Sensing
• Forest Carbon
• Policy
• Mitigation
• Climate Change Mitigation
• Forestry
• Methodologies for Carbon Accounting
• Redd+ --Technical and Policy
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Carbon
• Climate Change Mitigation in Land Use and Forestry Sector
• International Development
• Land Use
• Ecology
• Data Analysis
• Natural Resource Management
• Climate Change
• Sustainability
• Environmental Policy