Dr. Dawn Woodard (they/them)

Dawn Woodard works on forest policy and biomass energy issues at NRDC, with specific expertise in GIS and mapping, climate modeling, and multi-sectoral modeling of human and Earth systems. At NRDC, they focus on mapping and analysis related to federal forest policy, forest-derived biomass energy, wildfire issues and their intersections with other public lands topics including freshwater, oil and gas production, and mining. Prior to joining NRDC, they spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Global Change Research Institute of Pacific Northwest National Lab and the University of Maryland, working on issues related to land use and carbon cycle modeling, climate feedbacks, and integrated human-Earth system modeling. Woodard got their PhD in Earth system science from the University of California, Irvine and holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Appalachian State University. They are based in Washington, D.C.