Stephen Lloyd
Director of Data Science, New York Division
Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Lloyd Stephen Lloyd is Director of Data Science for the New York Division. © Thaiyeba Jalil/TNC
Areas of Expertise
Conservation Planning, Spatial Analysis, Scenario Modeling, Landscape Ecology, Urban Planning
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Email: may.yeung@tnc.orgBiography
Stephen Lloyd is Director of Data Science for the New York Division. He leads spatial analysis and data modeling projects that support a broad range of conservation priorities across the state and beyond. Stephen specializes in developing tools to support solutions to issues such as climate change, habitat degradation, water quality, and terrestrial connectivity. With a background in urban and environmental planning, Stephen has a keen research interest in system dynamics and working across social, economic, and ecological systems.
His current research has centered around modeling connectivity across focal landscapes in the Appalachians as well as developing prioritization strategies for land protection based on a suite of conservation objectives. Related to that work, he has been analyzing local land trust capacity across New York State to help in assisting organizations in protecting lands for connectivity as well as other co-benefits.
Starting off at The Nature Conservancy, Stephen advanced the development of nitrogen loading models across Long Island, NY that have been critical to advancing the improvement of severely impaired marine and fresh waterbodies. He also worked to improve the availability of New York City and Long Island’s data and tools around coastal resiliency, including developing and applying sea level rise and tidal marsh migration models. He also led the creation of the first road stream and tidal crossing prioritization tool for Long Island to assess culverts that were in need of improvement to reduce flooding and improve aquatic connectivity.
Prior to joining The Nature Conservancy in 2012, Stephen worked as a researcher at MIT in collaboration with the US Fish & Wildlife Service to develop future land use scenarios to inform habitat conservation in southern Florida. Before that, Stephen worked for the non-profit Ecotrust where he was a GIS Specialist focused on marine spatial planning along the California and Oregon coasts, and in salmon conservation throughout the North Pacific Ocean.
Stephen earned a B.A. in Mathematics and Environmental Science from Tufts University, and a M.C.P in Environmental Policy and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also received a certificate in Conservation and Ecology from the School for International Training in Ecuador.