Joseph Kiesecker
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Dr. Joseph Kiesecker is a Lead Scientist for The Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Lands Team. In this capacity his main responsibilities include developing new tools, methods, and techniques that improve conservation. He pioneered the Conservancy’s Development by Design strategy, to improve impact mitigation through the incorporation of predictive modeling to provide solutions that benefits conservation goals and development. He is in a leadership role on several Development by Design pilot projects including work in oil and gas fields and renewable energy sites in the United States, and regions of Colombia, Australia, and Mongolia where energy and mining exploration is advancing rapidly. He also conducts his own research in areas ranging from disease ecology, to the effectiveness of new conservation tools such as conservation easements.