The Weekly Anthropocene Interviews: Dr. Dominique Bachelet, Climate Change Ecologist
A Scientist Spotlight Interview
Dr. Dominique Bachelet is a climate change scientist and ecologist with over 40 years of research experience. She is known for her research on fire, forests, and climate change in the Western US and worldwide, and more recently her innovative work creating geospatial visualization and analysis tools to respond to climate impacts.
A lightly edited transcript of this exclusive interview follows. This writer’s questions and remarks are in bold, Dr. Bachelet’s responses are in regular type. Bold italics are clarifications and extra information added after the interview.
Can you share your personal story and journey towards climate science?
I came to the US in 1979 to do my Ph.D. here. My advisor in Paris had done some modeling in Saskatchewan, and he told me that modeling groups in the US were more advanced than in France at the time. So I came here, and ended up with two advisors doing environmental interactions work in the Great Plains, in Colorado. I was looking at plant-animal interacti…
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