Senior Fellow; World Wildlife Fund

Becky Chaplin-Kramer

Becky Chaplin-Kramer is the Global Biodiversity Lead Scientist at the World Wildlife Fund. She previously held joint appointments at Stanford University and the University of Minnesota through her work at the Natural Capital Project, where she led development of global modeling of ecosystem services. She was also co-founder and executive director of the tech non-profit Spring (springinnovate.org), which builds software solutions for environmental research and problem solving. She is a Coordinating Lead Author on the Values Assessment for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and serves on the Task Force on Knowledge and Data for IPBES, the Ecosystem Services Working Group for the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO-BON), and the Expert Working Group Consulting on NASA Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting Programs. She earned her PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from University of California, Berkeley.

Contact

becky.chaplin-kramer@wwf.org

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Publications

An open-source approach for measuring corporate impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity. (2024). Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01797-7
Expanding the E in ESG with high-resolution global mapping of ecosystem services and corporate physical assets . (2024). Preprint. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.170967630.06341452/v1
Influences of Satellite Sensor and Scale on Derivation of Ecosystem Functional Types and Diversity. (2023). Remote Sensing, 15(23), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15235593
Centring justice in conceptualizing and improving access to urban nature. (2023). People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10470
Nature’s Frontiers: Achieving Sustainability, Efficiency, and Prosperity with Natural Capital. (2023). World Bank Group.
Langhans, K. E., Schmitt, R. J. P., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Anderson, C. B., Vargas Bolaños, C., Vargas Cabezas, F., Dirzo, R., Goldstein, . J. A., Horangic, T., Miller Granados, C., Powell, T. M., Smith, . J. R., Alvarado Quesada, I., Umaña Quesada, A., Monge Vargas, R., Wolny, S., & Daily, G. C. . (2022). Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica. Ecosystem Services, 57, 101470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101470
Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science. (2021). Nature Sustainability, 4, 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00625-y
A coupled forage-grazer model predicts viability of livestock production and wildlife habitat at the regional scale. (2019). Scientific Reports, 9, 19957. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56470-3
Incorporating climate change scenarios into Invest and Rios. (2016). Natural Capital Project. https://naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj25256/files/media/file/incorporating-climate-change-scenarios-into-invest-and-rios-2016-01-11.pdf