Manette Sandor

Dr. Sandor is WFFRC’s team lead for Consequences for Ecosystem Services, which researches how changing forests and fire regimes impact benefits essential to human well-being like water supply, air quality, carbon storage, and biodiversity, as well as land use. Within The Collaborative, her stakeholder-informed work synthesizes forest dynamics, fire ecology, biodiversity science, and applied management within western US socioecological systems to understand what the future of these systems look like and how we can apply evidence-based management strategies to mitigate increasingly severe and frequent fires.

Manette is a Research Associate at the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, and holds a PhD and MS from University of Connecticut. She uses an array of statistical, spatial, and simulation modeling combined with field, large spatial, biodiversity, and social data to answer applied ecological and socioecological questions. She has worked on research about how climate change and other anthropogenic disturbances affect ecological communities, landscape resilience, and socioecological systems in the western United States for over 10 years.