Kimberly Carlson is an Associate Professor at New York University’s Department of Environmental Studies. As a land systems scientist, she is dedicated to understanding how human activities on land jointly affect the environment and human society. Carlson’s expertise spans the disciplines of remote sensing, tropical ecology, biogeochemistry, and spatial modeling. Her work informs the effectiveness and equity of voluntary sustainability programs applied to tropical commodities, as well as the sustainability of land use change and agricultural production. She received her PhD from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2012. Carlson also holds a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University and has worked at the Carnegie Institute’s Department of Global Ecology. She was a Post-doctoral Research Scholar at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment. Most recently, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa. Her research has been funded by NASA, NSF, USDA, and Google, and has been featured in outlets ranging from National Geographic to the New York Times. You can find her CV here.