Marion Wittmann

Program Officer, Wildfire Resilience Initiative

 

Marion works on implementation and adaptive management of the foundation’s strategies and grantmaking to achieve healthy fire-adapted ecosystems and resilient fire-prone communities, by reducing the threat of severe wildfire and enabling beneficial fire.

 
Marion Wittmann
 

Biography

Marion is a program officer in the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Wildfire Resilience Initiative, where she works on implementation and adaptive management of the foundation’s strategies and grantmaking to achieve healthy fire-adapted ecosystems and resilient fire-prone communities, by reducing the threat of severe wildfire and enabling beneficial fire.

Prior to joining the foundation, Marion was the Executive Director of the University of California Santa Barbara Natural Reserve System, stewarding nearly 60,000 acres of California’s lands -- supporting science, conservation, safety, and wildfire resilience in habitats ranging from the Channel Islands to the Sierra Nevada. Marion served as a AAAS Congressional Fellow in the United States Senate and was a Research Professor at the University of Nevada Reno. As a scientist, Marion has worked on collaborative research programs across the North American West, the Great Lakes and internationally in Central America, authoring over 25 peer-reviewed scientific articles in risk assessment, freshwater resource management, and environmental change. Marion is currently a member of the California’s AB1757 Natural and Working Lands Expert Advisory Committee, supporting the state’s carbon emissions reductions goals.

Marion received a B.A. in Integrative Biology from the University of California Berkeley, a Ph.D. in Environmental Science & Management from the University of California Santa Barbara, and was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Davis - Tahoe Environmental Research Center, and the University of Notre Dame.

 
 

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