Adam Hanbury-Brown, PhD

Prior to joining Carbon Direct Adam was a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and UC Davis where he used a state-of-the-art mechanistic vegetation model to predict how California's forests will respond to changing management, fire regimes, and climate. Adam earned his PhD in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley where he improved the representation of ecological processes in the vegetation components of Earth System Models. During his PhD Adam was also funded by NASA to use remote sensing to understand what drives post-fire forest regeneration outcomes in California.

Prior to his graduate work, Adam worked for an agriculture technology company called Terviva where he focused on the science and commercialization of a sustainable tree crop called pongamia. Adam received his BA in Environmental Science from Pitzer College.