Sharon Bruch-Mordo
Sharon Baruch-Mordo is a spatial scientist with The Nature Conservancy’s Global Lands Science team. Her research focuses on siting renewable energy in a responsible way to meet the goals of both climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Sharon is also part of on-going research by the Global Lands Science team to quantify the extent of human land-use modification and future development risk across the globe. Sharon has been involved in a wide range of research topics relating to conservation in human-dominated landscapes, and she co-led a SNAPP project to study effects of hydraulic fracturing on water quality and quantity. Before joining TNC, Sharon’s research focused on urban black bear ecology and human-bear interactions and conflicts. She completed her PhD in Ecology (2012) and MS in Wildlife Biology (2007) at the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University, where she currently holds an affiliate faculty position.
