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Jonathan Haskett, Ph.D.
Associate Director of the Energy, Resources and Environment Program, Associate Practitioner-in-Residence
Based in Washington, D.C.
Bernstein-Offit 742
- (202) 663-5645
- jhasket1@jhu.edu
Background and Education
Focuses on ways to combine climate change mitigation and adaptation, land use and poverty reduction in the developing world; most recently was principal scientist for climate change with the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, where responsibilities included development of a system for carbon measurement and monitoring that can be applied on mixed-use agricultural and forested landscapes; was an assistant researcher and lecturer in geography at the University of Maryland, College Park, working on the long-term acquisition plan for the Landsat-7 earth-observing satellite; as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador, assisted indigenous communities with soil conservation, agroforestry and mapping of the landscape carbon resource; conducted research on the effect of climate change on agriculture while serving as a postdoctoral scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service; Ph.D., soil science, University of Minnesota
"Taking Stock of the Global Environment Facility Experience With Payments for Environmental Services Projects," co-author, in Payments for Environmental Services, Forest Conservation and Climate Change: Livelihoods in the REDD? (2011); "Land-Based Carbon Storage and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme: The Science Underlying the Policy," co-author, in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change (2010); "Effect of Climate and Atmospheric Change on Soybean Water Stress: A Study of Iowa," co-author, in Ecological Modelling (2000); "Increase of CO2 and Climate Change Effects on Iowa Soybean Yield, Simulated Using GLYCIM," co-author, in Agronomy Journal (1997); "The Philosophical Basis of Soil Classification and Its Evolution" in Soil Science Society of America Journal (1995)
- Regions
- Africa
- Latin America
- Topics
- Agricultural Development
- Climate Change
- Food Security