California

Rebecca Shaw, Ph.D.
Director of Conservation Science, The Nature Conservancy of California

Shaw is the lead scientist for the Natural Capital Project’s Sierra Nevada demonstration site. She has also played a key role in launching the Natural Capital Project team developing new mapping and modeling approaches. At TNC, Shaw manages an interdisciplinary group of scientists and technical experts that is working to incorporate the best available scientific information into the full array of TNC programs. Prior to joining TNC, Shaw conducted research at the Department of Global Ecology on the impacts of global change on ecosystems processes and biodiversity. The results of her research have been published in leading academic journals including Science and Nature. She received her M.A. in environmental policy and her PhD in energy and resources from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dick Cameron
Senior Conservation Planner, The Nature Conservancy of California

Cameron is developing spatially-explicit databases representing the distribution and interconnections between ecosystem services for the Sierra Nevada demonstration site. For the past 12 years, he has applied his skills in the spatial analysis of ecological patterns to conservation challenges throughout the western United States and northern Mexico. In his current position, he leads cross-disciplinary teams to set conservation priorities in California, while developing innovative approaches to address key global conservation challenges, such as tracking progress toward the Conservancy’s global conservation goals. Cameron has a B.A. in Geography from Middlebury College and an M.A. from University of Colorado. He is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Conservation GIS.

Erik Haunreiter
GIS Research Assistant, The Nature Conservancy of California

Haunreiter works on ecosystem services mapping throughout California, focusing on the Natural Capital Project's Sierra Nevada demonstration site. He has over 10 years working in the field in positions as diverse as working as an ecologist and GIS analyst for the US Forest Service and consulting firms in California, Oregon, and Washington to volunteering in Mozambique for aid projects. Most recently before joining TNC, he worked for the USFS Forest Health Monitoring Program in Davis, CA mapping pests and disease in California's forests. Haunreiter has a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Washington and Masters in Environmental Management and Forestry from Duke.