Dr. Scott Goetz is Regents Professor at Northern Arizona University. Between 2002 and 2016 he was a scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, including five years as Deputy Director, and continues to collaborate with Woodwell scientists.
He has conducted satellite remote sensing research for global environmental science applications over the past ~40 years, having both organized and served on numerous working groups for the IPCC, US Global Change Research Program, US National Academy of Sciences, as well as NASA and NSF programs on Arctic, boreal, and tropical carbon cycle science, climate change feedbacks, terrestrial ecology, and biodiversity.
He is the Science Lead of NASA’s 10+ year Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) and deputy principal investigator of NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) operating from the International Space Station. He is a Thomson-Reuters highly-cited researcher in the environmental and interdisciplinary science categories, with some 250 refereed publications cited over 50,000 times. His research has been covered by numerous news outlets including The New York Times and National Public Radio, popular magazines such as National Geographic and Scientific American, and science news publications (e.g., Nature, Science).
Prof. Goetz is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a past Fulbright Research Scholar in Toulouse, France, and has received NASA team awards for interdisciplinary science. He is Editor in Chief of Environmental Research Ecology, an executive board member of Environmental Research Letters, and served for 10 years as an associate editor of Remote Sensing of Environment. He has sponsored dozens of early career scientists and graduate students.