Patrick McCarthy
About Patrick's Work
Patrick McCarthy is the Water Policy Officer at the Thornburg Foundation. Trained as a conservation ecologist, he has worked for the last thirty years at the intersection of ecological science, water governance, and community-based conservation. During his thirty-year tenure with The Nature Conservancy, Patrick worked in New England, the U.S. Southwest, and southern Africa on evidence-based solutions for water resources policy, planning, and management. At the Thornburg Foundation, he focuses on building water resilience in New Mexico by supporting science, partnerships, and public policies that address the effects of climate change and aridification on communities and ecosystems. Patrick holds a B.S. in Anthropology/Zoology from the University of Michigan and an M.S. in Botany (Field Naturalist Program) from the University of Vermont, and completed the Naturalist-Ecologist Training Program at the University of Michigan Biological Station. He lives in Santa Fe with his wife Laura.
