Author Description
Nicole Robinson Maness is the Willamette Partnership’s lead on aquatic and upland habitat protocols. Nicole is working with state and federal regulatory agencies in Oregon on stream and wetland mitigation, and catalyzing efforts to link regulatory assurances, ecosystem markets, and sustainable certification incentives. She has an extensive background in forest ecology. She is co-author of “Measuring Up: Synchronizing Biodiversity Measurement Systems for Markets and Other Incentive Programs”— a report recently released by the USDA Office of Environmental Markets (http://willamettepartnership.org/ measuring-up). She is also a faculty research assistant at Oregon State University working on projects investigating policy issues related to private landowner involvement with voluntary carbon markets.
