Healy Hamilton

Dr. Healy Hamilton is Chief Scientist at Sustainable Foresty Initiative, where she leads an interdisciplinary team in delivering information on the status and distribution of species and their habitats needed to advance conservation. A biodiversity scientist with graduate degrees from Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley, she is interested in the evolution and conservation of life on Earth. Her current research focus is global change biology, with an emphasis on forecasting the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems for natural resource management and conservation.  An avid diver and ocean lover, she also studies the taxonomy, evolution and conservation genetics of seahorses and their relatives. Dr. Hamilton is an elected Executive Committee member of the IUCN U.S. National Committee, a contributor to the IUCN Species Survival Commission for Seahorses and Pipefish, an Honorary Fellow of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, a member of the Key Biodiversity Areas Committee, and the past president of the Society for Conservation GIS. She is a Switzer Foundation Environmental Leadership grantee and a former U.S. Fulbright Scholar. Committed to public understanding of biodiversity and global change, Dr. Hamilton leverages data visualization to improve ecological and conservation understanding.