RACHEL MARTIN
Who am I?
Rachel Martin (she/her/hers)
Rachel Martin is a native West Virginian where her love for the environment started after seeing natural resource destruction and environmental injustice occurring in her backyard. She later attended Ohio University where she majored in Environmental Studies, focusing on species conservation, systems-change, biological science, political science and interdisciplinary environmentalism. Rachel Martin is a DPhil researcher at the University of Oxford focused on how economic systems can be transformed to achieve nature positive outcomes for biodiversity. Her work aims to bridge insights into biodiversity metrics and measurement methodologies, economic modelling, and systems change to understand the cumulative effects of human activities on nature and to identify scalable actions that drive regenerative change.
With a background in conservation innovation, Rachel previously led the Extinction Solutions Index at Conservation X Labs and now works as a Technical Manager with the Nature Positive Initiative on state of nature outcome measures.
Learn Something New
Attached are some of the topics I find interesting and websites and articles where you can learn more about them!
 Climate ChangeRead about challenges and solutions for climate change from NASA. |  Endangered SpeciesEndangered and threatened species deserve protection and consideration. The National Wildlife Federation has great information on why they should be protected, how listing works, and success stories. |  6th Mass ExtinctionLearn about past and future comparisons of species loss and what makes this one unique (in a bad way). Also read: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert |
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 Species Distribution ModelingUnderstanding best practices for conservationists and scientists to display data is essential. SDMs are of growing popularity and are a useful tool, if we use them right. Check out this article to get started coding in R! |  Intersectional EnvironmentalismFellow Udall Scholar Wanjiku Gatheru wrote an amazing piece on the erasure of Black people in environmental studies. Read about her experience and learn how we can do better. |  Environmental JusticeEnvironmental racism is a growing issue in practice and literature. Racism influenced the design of our National Parks. There are known and deliberate inequalities in the pollution levels communities experience. The following link is a collection of resources to learn more. |
Mentors, Funders, and Thanks
Thank you all!
Thesis Advisor
Voinovich Research Scholar and Tutorial Advisor
Past Director of Studies, Environmental Studies Program
NOAA Hollings Mentor
Selected as a 2018 Ernest F. Hollings scholar
Selected as a 2019 Udall Foundation scholar to learn about environmental, tribal and public health work.
Unique tutorial style college where I completed an Environmental Studies degree.
Funding for original research
Local scholarship fund for West Virginia residents. Awarded the Leopold & Elizabeth Marmet Memorial Scholarship for field of study in Science, Production or Conservation of Energy or Natural Resources for four years.
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