Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

Katie Warnell

Senior Policy Associate, Ecosystem Services Program

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Katie Warnell focuses on enhancing natural resource management to benefit both nature and people by ensuring decision-makers have access to relevant and timely data. Her recent and ongoing projects include natural capital accounting, spatial mapping of ecosystem services, quantifying carbon benefits of natural climate solutions, identifying opportunities for ecosystem management with climate and resilience benefits, synthesizing literature on the effects of management activities on biodiversity and carbon, and evaluating and developing metrics for socioeconomic outcomes of restoration projects. Warnell holds a master of environmental management degree and geospatial analysis certificate from Duke University.