About Rebecca's Work
Rebecca Shaw is the Director of Conservation Science for The Nature Conservancy in San Francisco and Visiting Scientist at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology on Stanford University’s campus. As Director of Conservation Science, she is responsible for incorporating the best available scientific information into the full array of TNC programs and managing an interdisciplinary team of scientific and technical experts. Through partnerships with academics and government agency partners, her team’s research projects focus on incorporating climate change impacts and economic return into conservation priority setting and conservation planning for ecosystem services, marine systems and migratory species. Prior to joining TNC, Rebecca conducted research at the Department of Global Ecology on the impacts of global change on ecosystems processes and biodiversity. The results of her research have been published in leading academic journals including Science and Nature. She received her M.A. in environmental policy and her PhD in energy and resources from the University of California at Berkeley.