Conservation Science

Gregory Verutes

GIS Analyst

Areas of Expertise: ecosystem services, marine spatial planning, GIS programming and modeling for conservation

Gregg works with the Natural Captial Project to develop Marine InVEST, a set of GIS models for quantifying the services provided by coastal and marine ecosystems.  The team's marine tools are currently being applied on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Belize, and Monterey Bay.  His work with CSP involves automating GIS processes for conservation modeling and improving the usability of spatial decision support tools.

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