The Salazar Center is proud to announce that Dr. Lydia Olander, Director of Nature-Based Resilience, White House Council on Environmental Quality, will be joining us in Denver, Colorado for the fifth-annual International Symposium on Conservation Impact.
Dr. Olander is the Director of Nature-Based Resilience at the White House Council on Environmental Quality where she leads work on nature-based solutions, working with both the conservation and climate resilience teams. She joined CEQ from Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environment, Energy & Sustainability, where she is a program director, an adjunct professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment, and leads the National Ecosystem Services Partnership. Her research includes ecosystem services, natural capital accounting, nature-based solutions, environmental markets, and climate adaptation and resilience. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Prior to joining the Nicholas Institute, she spent a year as an AAAS Congressional Science and Technology Fellow working with Senator Joseph Lieberman on environmental and energy issues. Before that she was a researcher with the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Department of Global Ecology, where she studied the biogeochemical impacts of logging in the Brazilian Amazon and utilized remote sensing to extrapolate regional impacts. She received her PhD from Stanford University, where she studied nutrient cycling in tropical forests, and earned a master’s degree in forest science from Yale University.
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