Deputy Director of Forest at World Resources Institute
Dr. Fred Stolle is the deputy director of Forest at the World Resources Institute’s (WRI) where he works since 2003. Fred is specialized in spatial based land cover and land use change assessments and its associated climate and ecosystem impacts, quantifying drivers, and making data available and relevant for policy and decision makers. He is trained as a Geographical Information System (GIS) and Remote sensing specialist and lived in Costa Rica, Kenya, Indonesia, Belgium and since 2003 in the USA. He worked at UNEP (Nairobi) and in Indonesia for UNESCO, World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), and Center for International Forestry (CIFOR). He further has been an adjunct professor at the school for advance international studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, lead technical assessor of forest carbon monitoring systems for the World Bank Biocarbon fund, and sits in several working groups use of and development of spatial data. Fred is based in Washington DC; he holds a MSc in biology and a PhD in Geography.
Sep. 29, 03:30pm • Session • The North Hub
Is forest monitoring a solved problem? We will discuss how new sensors and approaches for forests monitoring can help us meet market demands for net-zero carbon, zero deforestation, and biodiversity conservation.
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