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David Shoch, Carbon Market Specialist, Global Climate Change Initiative
David Shoch

David Shoch
Carbon Markets Specialist

Brief biography
David Shoch of The Nature Conservancy’s Global Climate Change Initiative has sixteen years experience in natural resource conservation work, the last eight years of which have been focused on forestry-based greenhouse gas mitigation projects. He is an expert in forest biomass carbon measurement and monitoring. David has extensive experience working in Latin America where he has led teams in developing and implementing community-based conservation and forestry programs, as well as in the United States, in particular the Mississippi Alluvial Valley where he has been providing technical support for bottomland hardwood restoration projects since 2001. Prior to joining TNC in 2006, David served as a program officer for Winrock International’s Ecosystem Services Group. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters.

Education:

                                 

Master of Forestry, 1999

Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC

 

B.A. Biology, May 1991

University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

 

Selected Publications:

 

Shoch, D. and D. Anderson. In press Status of Tern Colonies in the Honduras Bay Islands. Waterbirds 30(3).

 

Shoch, D. 2005. Forest management for Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis): a case

study in managing in uncertainty. North American Birds 59(3).

 

International Panel on Climate Change (Contributing Author) 2003. IPCC Supplementary Methods and

Good Practice Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol: Methods for Estimation, Measurement,

Monitoring and Reporting of Land-use, Land-use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Activities under

Article 3.3 and 3.4 Chapter 4.