Marcia Moreno-Báez

Marcia Moreno-Báez is a Research Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She teaches courses on geospatial technology, with a focus on the development and application of spatial methods in areas such as territorial and marine planning, and natural resource management. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marcia has over 25 years of experience applying geospatial tools across government, academia, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.

She is affiliated with the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP), the Climate Policy Lab, and the Henry J. Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security, all based at Tufts. She is also co-founder and advisor of dataMares, an initiative that improves access to scientific data and knowledge; a collaborating professor with the NIPPON Foundation's Ocean Nexus program; and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Regenerative Blue Economy.

Her research focuses on two main areas: understanding the spatial distribution of economic activities, resource extraction, and policies—primarily in coastal and ocean environments—and supporting applied research that integrates social, economic, and environmental goals to promote equity and justice through inclusive, cross-sectoral collaboration.