Rachel Martin

Extinction Solutions Index and research Manager

Rachel executes conservation research as the Extinction Solutions Index and Research Manager. She is passionate about leveraging evidence-based approaches and quantitative methods to better understand the drivers of extinction and potential solutions to meet the scale of the 6th mass extinction.

Rachel graduated from Ohio University with a degree in Environmental Studies with a focus on biological sciences and political science. She has experience completing research on a variety of projects: modeling species’ biophysical responses to climate change and the need for protected areas and management to adapt to predictive changes, analyzing social networks in climate collaboratives across the US to better understand success of local initiatives, working with rural communities on water quality management in the Great Lakes, assisting with harbor seal cognition and distance estimation, and performing plant surveys for federally-threatened species in rocky outcrops by repelling.

Rachel has performed research at multiple institutions, including Ohio University’s Biological Sciences Department and Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, and Rostock Marine Science Center in Germany.