Marcia Moreno-Báez

Marcia Moreno-Baez is a Research Professor in Geospatial Technology at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She also serves as an associate advisor to Andanza LLC, a consultancy providing support to individuals, groups, collectives, and institutions on their path to increasing environmental and human well-being. She is a collaborating professor at the NIPPON Foundation Ocean Nexus and a board member of the Maine Big Night, a non-profit organization committed to protecting and studying amphibians. She is the co-founder and advisor of dataMares, an initiative to facilitate access to scientific knowledge and data, and the co-founder of Watershed Management Group, a non-governmental organization aimed at developing community-based solutions to ensure the long-term prosperity of the environment. Marcia has more than 25 years of experience in the field of geospatial technology, with diverse professional practices in government, the private sector, NGOs, and academia. Her experience also involves facilitating the practical use of science and technology for a spatially literate workforce and supporting scientific research and policy in the US, Mexico, and Latin America. She is currently a member of the Center for the International Environment and Resources Policy (CIERP), the Climate Policy Lab, and the Henry J. Leir Institute for Migration and Human Security at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy and Law. Marcia earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She has two primary research areas: understanding the spatial distribution of impacts of environmental problems, resource extraction, and policies; and supporting applied research that bridges the common divides between social, economic, and environmental goals while creating opportunities for equity and justice through the participation of different sectors and stakeholders. She currently teaches classes on geospatial technology, focusing on using and developing geospatial methods across an array of applications, such as human security, economic development, humanitarian assistance, climate change, and natural resources management, in locations across the globe.