Rachel Martin is an interdisciplinary researcher and freelance science writer, evaluating and highlighting evidence-based approaches to biodiversity loss and innovative, regenerative solutions for the planet and its people. She currently serves as the Research Manager at Conservation X Labs, leading their Extinction Solutions Index (ESI).
Rachel graduated from Ohio University with a degree in Environmental Studies with a focus on biological sciences and political science. She has experience completing research on a variety of projects: modeling species’ biophysical responses to climate change and the need for protected areas and management to adapt to predictive changes, analyzing social networks in climate collaboratives across the US to better understand success of local initiatives, working with rural communities on water quality management in the Great Lakes, assisting with harbor seal cognition and distance estimation, and performing plant surveys for federally-threatened species in rocky outcrops by repelling. She has shared results of this work internationally, including at the Center for Biological Diversity’s COP15, International Congress for Conservation Biology, IUCN World Conservation Congress, International Marine Conservation Congress, Ocean Sciences Meeting, and Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
