The Salazar Center is proud to announce that Lauren E. Oakes, Adjunct Professor and Conservation Scientist at Stanford University, will be joining us in Denver, Colorado for the fifth-annual International Symposium on Conservation Impact.
Lauren is a conservation scientist and science writer. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University. In addition to publishing her climate- and forest-related research in peer-reviewed journals, Lauren has contributed to many media outlets. Lauren’s first book, In Search of the Canary Tree (Basic Books, 2018) won second place for the 2019 Rachel Carson Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Communication Award. She is working on a new narrative non-fiction book about the global reforestation movement.
By training, Lauren an ecologist and human-natural systems scientist, which means she considers people and “nature” as inherently linked; human and environmental health are intertwined. She works on advancing best practices in climate adaptation and implementation of nature-based solutions. She writes because she loves storytelling, and she believes there’s a pressing need to make science and solutions to environmental problems more accessible to people across the planet.
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