Holly Gibbs has 6 years experience working
as a land-use scientist.
She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Sustainability and
the Global Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
where she studies global-scale tropical deforestation and the
implications for the global carbon cycle and climate. Holly
is developing a new spatially-explicit "hybrid" estimate
of tropical deforestation rates in the 1980s and 1990s and
working to reduce the uncertainty in carbon emissions from
tropical land-use change. She recently co-developed the ever-evolving
Earth Collaboratory, which is an internet-based mechanism attempting
to conduct global-scale participatory research on tropical
deforestation.
Holly received her B.S. in Environmental Science (1999)
and M.S. in Natural Resources / Remote Sensing (2000) from
The Ohio State University. She then headed south to Oak Ridge
National Laboratory's Environmental Sciences Division to
lead GIS and remote-sensing research for carbon and water
cycle projects before starting her Ph.D. in 2003.
http://www.earthcollaboratory.org
http://www.sage.wisc.edu/index.html
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