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Bill Stanley
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Bill Stanley
Oho Science Director
Contact Information
The Nature Conservancy
Global Climate Change Initiative
490 Westfield Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22901
Phone: 434-989-3111
E-mail: bstanley@tnc.org
Brief Biography
Bill Stanley directs the Conservancy's Global Climate Change Initiative. A forest scientist, he has worked on climate change at the Conservancy since 1999, including research and studies on forests in the U.S., Belize, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. He has also worked extensively on climate change policy, drafting proposed climate-change legislation and engaging in policy discussions internationally.
He leads a TNC team that supports activities to reduce global warming emissions from deforestation and other damage to natural landscapes and works to build networks of protected areas that will be resilient to climate change impacts. Land conservation and restoration reduces emissions caused by deforestation and facilitates the absorption and storage of heat-trapping gases. His team works with government relations staff on policies and programs to limit global warming emissions, and with TNC field conservation staff to demonstrate the role that their activities play in reducing global warming and how they can prepare for the climate change that is inevitable. Prior to working at TNC he worked with the Center for Sustainable Development in the Americas (CSDA) and as a private-sector environmental consultant. He has published work on policies that promote land management as a tool for reducing global warming, natural forest regeneration on degraded lands, and carbon and nutrient management in native species plantations.
Education
1995-1997 Master of Forest Science, Ecosystem Science and Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
1987-1991 B.A., Environmental Science; Minor, Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA.
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