NADINE T. LAPORTE ResearchProfessorSchoolofForestryNorthernArizonaUniversityFlagstaff,AZ86011Phone:+1-928-523-6568Fax:+1-928-523-1080Email:nadine.laporte@nau.edu

BIOGRAPHY My work is focused on applications of satellite imagery for mapping, monitoring, managing and conserving tropical forests. This includes carbon stock and change mapping, as well as land use change and deforestation modeling. I spent over 30 years working on institutional and human technical capacity building for governments and NGOs in West, East and Central Africa. I believe that my work has influenced tropical forest policies and increased transparency in the forest sector in these regions. The technical training of young technicians and scientists in developing countries has been a central piece of my capacity building activities. As a scientist, I have led large research projects and raised more than 10 million US dollars in grants from donors such as Google, NASA and NSF. I developed forest monitoring systems such as the “Integrated Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa” (INFORMS), combining fine satellite imagery information with field observations to improve forest management practices and promote forest conservation. I published my research in high profile journals such as Science, PLOS one, Nature Climate Change, and Environmental Research Letters. I received my Ph.D. in Tropical Biogeography in 1990 from University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France. I have been a consultant with the European Joint Research Centre (TREES project) in Italy, the Tropical Forest Assessment program of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome, the World Research Institute (WRI), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the USAID Biodiversity Support program in Washington DC, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor, Indonesia, and most recently with the Clinton Climate Initiative in Nairobi, Kenya.

EMPLOYMENT

2016 – Present Research Professor at the School of Forestry - Northern Arizona University, AZ, USA

2003 – 2014 Associate Scientist, Africa Program Director, Woods Hole Research Center, MA, USA 1996 – 2002 Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Geography, University of Maryland, MD, USA 1991 – 1994 Post-Doctoral Researcher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Inventory Mapping and

Monitoring (GIMMS) Project 1991 – Present Consultant in remote sensing applications and technical capacity building:

• American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA • Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia • Clinton Climate Initiative, Kenya

• Joint Research Centre, Tropical Ecosystem Environmental Observation by Satellite (TREES), Ispra, Italy

• Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium • USAID Biodiversity Support Program, Washington DC, USA

• World Research Institute, Washington DC, USA • World Wildlife Fund, Washington DC, USA • Wildlife Conservation Society in NY, USA

EDUCATION Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse France 1990: Doctorate in Tropical Ecology and Remote Sensing (Ph.D.) 1986: Advanced Studies Degree in Ecology 1985: Master in Biology of Organisms and Populations 1984: Bachelor in Biology 1982: Diploma of General Studies in Sciences

PUBLICATIONS Refereed Goetz, S.J., M. Hansen, R.A. Houghton, W. Walker, N. Laporte, and J. Busch. 2015. Measurement and

monitoring needs, capabilities and potential for addressing reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation under REDD+. Environmental Research Letters 10. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/123001.

Galford, G.L., B.S. Soares-Filho, B.S. Sontere and N.T. Laporte. (2015) Will passive protection save Congo

forests? PlosOne, 10, e0128473. Jantz, P., S. Goetz, and N. Laporte. 2014. Carbon stock corridors to mitigate climate change and promote

biodiversity in the tropics. Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2105. Rose, R. A., Byler, D., Eastman, J. R., Fleishman, E., Geller, G., Goetz, S., Guild, L., Hamilton, H., Hansen, M.,

Headley, R., Hewson, J., Horning, N., Kaplin, B., Laporte, N., Leidner, A., Leimgruber, P., Morisette, J., Musinsky, L., Pintea, L., Prados, A., Radeloff, V., Rowen, M., Schill, S., Tabor, K., Turner, W., Vodacek, A., Vogelmann, J., Wegmann, M., Wilkie, D., Wilson, C. (2015), Ten Ways Remote Sensing Can Contribute to Conservation. Conservation Biology, 29(2), 350–359.

Tyukavina, S. V, Stehman, S., Potapov, P. V, Turubanova, S. A., Baccini, A., Goetz, S. J., Laporte, N T, Houghton,

R A, Hansen, M. C. (2013). National-scale estimation of gross forest aboveground carbon loss: a case study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Environmental Research Letters, 8(4), 044039.

Zhuravleva, I., Turubanova, S., Potapov, P., Hansen, M., Tyukavina, A., Minnemeyer, S., Laporte N, Goetz S,

Verbelen F and Thies, C. (2013). Satellite-based primary forest degradation assessment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2000-2010. Environmental Research Letters, 8(2), 24034.

Baccini A., S. J. Goetz,W. S.Walker, N. T. Laporte, M. Sun, D. Sulla-Menashe, J. Hackler, P. Beck, R. Dubayah,

M. A. Friedl, S. Samanta and R. A. Houghton (2012). Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps. Nature Climate Change 2:182-185 doi:10.1038/nclimate1354

Houghton R.A., N. Greenglass, A. Baccini, A. Cattaneo, S. Goetz, J. Kellndorfer, N. Laporte, W. Walker (2010)

The role of science in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). Carbon Management, 1(2): 253-259

Stabach J., Laporte N., Olupot W. (2009). Modeling Habitat Suitability for Grey Crowned Cranes (Balearica

regulorum gibbericeps) throughout Uganda. Biodiversity and Conservation. pp. 177-186. Online Journal: http://www.academicjournals.org/IJBC/contents/2009cont/Sept.htm

Goetz, S.J., A. Baccini, N.T. Laporte, T. Johns, W. Walker, J. Kellndorfer, R.A. Houghton, and M. Sun (2009).

Mapping and monitoring carbon stocks with satellite observations: a comparison of methods. Carbon Balance and Management 4:2.

Baccini, A., N. Laporte, S.J. Goetz, M. Sun, and H. Dong (2008). A first map of tropical Africa’s above-ground biomass derived from satellite imagery. Environmental Research Letters (3)045011

Devos C., C. Sanz, D. Morgan, J.R. Onononga, N. Laporte, M.C. Huynen (2008). Comparing Ape Densities and their Habitats in Northern Congo: Marked-Nest Surveys of Sympatric Gorillas and Chimpanzees in the Ndoki and Odzala Regions, AmericanJournalofPrimatology70:1–13.

Johns, T., Merry, F., Nepstad, D., Laporte, N., & Goetz, S. (2008). Coupling political and economic options to address the range of developing country circumstances on REDD. International Forestry Review, 10, 458-464

Laporte, N., Stabach, J. A., & Landsberg, F. (2008). Monitoring forest – savanna dynamics in Kibale National Park with satellite imagery (1989 – 2003 ): implications for the management of wildlife habitat. In R. Wrangham & E. Ross (Eds.), Science and Conservation in African Forests: the Benefits of Long-term Research (pp. 38–50). Cambridge University Press.

Laporte N.T, J. A. Stabach, R. Grosch, T. S. Lin, S.J. Goetz (2007). Expansion of Industrial Logging in Central Africa, Science. 316. 1451.

DeFries R., G. Asner, F. Achard, C. Justice, N. Laporte, K. Price, C. Small, J. Townshend (2005). Monitoring Tropical Deforestation for emerging carbon Markets, in Reduction of Tropical Deforestation and

Climate Change Mitigation: Editors P. Mountinho & S. Schwartzman. Laporte N.T., S. Lin, J. LeMoigne, D. Devers, and M. Honzak (2004), Toward an Integrated Forest Monitoring

System for Central Africa. In: Land Change Science: Observation, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth Surface, Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing, Vol (6), Ed. G. Gutman. ISBN: 1-4020-2562-9, p 97-110.

Chan J. C.W., N. Laporte, R. Defries (2003), Texture classification of logging in tropical Africa using machine

learning algorithms, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 24(6):1401-1407. Plumptre A.J., N. Laporte, and D. Devers (2003), The Biodiversity of the Albertine Rift - Threats to sites, in The

Biodiversity of the Albertine Rift - Albertine Rift Technical Reports III – Edited by A.J. Plumptre, M. Behangana, T.R.B. Davenport, C. Kahindo, R. Kityo, E. Ndomba, D. Nkuutu, I. Owiunji, P. Ssegawa, and G. Eilu, Chapter 9, pp 77-82.

Wilkie D., N. Laporte (2001), Forest area and deforestation in Central Africa: Current knowledge and future

directions, in W. Weber, A. Vedder, S. Morland, L. White (Eds), African Rainforest Ecology and Conservation, Yale University Press, 119-138p.

Sunderlin W., O. Ndoye, H. Bikié, N. Laporte, B. Mertens, J. Pokam (2000), Economic crisis, small-scale

agriculture, and forest change in southern Cameroon, Environmental Conservation, 27(3):284-290. Laporte N., S.J. Goetz, C.O. Justice, M. Heinicke (1998), A new land cover map of central Africa derived from multi-

resolution, multi-temporal AVHRR Data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19(18): 3537-3550. Laporte N., C. Justice, J. Kendall (1995), Mapping the dense humid forest of Cameroon and Zaire using AVHRR

satellite data, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 16 (6): 1127-1145.

Achard F., N. Laporte, F. Blasco (1994), Suivi de la végétation forestière dense humide en Afrique de l'Ouest par télédetection spatiale, Télédétection de L'Environnement dans l'Espace Francophone p. 211-227, F. Bonn, (Ed.) Presses de l'Université du Québec, 533 p.

Maligreau J.P., N. Laporte, J.M. Grégoire (1990), Exceptional fire events in the tropics: Southern Guinea January

1987, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 11(12): 2121-2123. Malingreau J.P., C.J. Tucker, N., Laporte (1989), AVHRR for monitoring global tropical deforestation, International

Journal of Remote Sensing, 10(4-5): 855-868. Proceedings and Reports Laporte N, Baccini A., Goetz S., Mekui P. Bausch A., 2010. Une première estimation de la biomasse ligneuse

aérienne d’Afrique sur la base d’images satellites et d’inventaires forestiers. Proceeding of the Conference on Carbon stock and Fluxes, COMIFAC, Brazzaville, March 2010.p: 58-65 http://www.observatoire-comifac.net/docs/confCOMIFACcarbon/Proceedings_COMIFAC_Conf%20web.pdf

Plumptre, A.J., B. Kirunda, H. Mugabe, J. Stabach, M. Driciru, G.Picton-Phillipps, S.Ayebare G.Nangendo and N. Laporte, 2010. The Impact of Fire and Large Mammals on the Ecology of Queen Elizabeth National Park, Report to the Wildlife Conservation Society, 56p.

Plumptre A.J, D. Pomeroy, J. Stabach, N. Laporte, M. Driciru, G. Nangendo, F. Wanyama& A. Rwetsiba, 2010, The effects of environmental and anthropogenic changes on the Savannas of the Queen Elizabeth and Virunga National parks. In Long Term changes in Africa’s Rift Valley: impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems. Editor A. Plumptre.

Stabach, J., A. Rwetsiba, D. Deneau, G. Fiske, W. Walker, and N. Laporte. 2010. Monitoring the Albertine Rift in Africa. ESRI ArcNews, Winter 2009-2010.

Laporte N, Houghton R., Baccini A., Stabach J., Hackler J., June 2008. Synthesis of the FAO and WHRC estimates of carbon fluxes and drivers of deforestation in tropical Africa, Report 20 pages + appendix.

Plumptre, A.J., G. Picton Phillips, J. Stabach, N. Laporte, E. Ourum, S. Ayebare, R. Grosch, R. Knox, and T. Akuguzibwe. 2008. Modeling factors that predict the distribution and density of ungulate species in the Queen Elizabeth National Park. Falmouth, MA: Woods Hole Research Center.

Laporte, N., F. Merry, A. Baccini, S. Goetz, R. Houghton, J. Stabach, and M. Bowman. 2008. Réduire les emissions de CO 2 liée au déboisement et de la dégradation dans la République Démocratique du Congo: Une étude exploratoire (Reducing CO 2 Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A First Look). Remise a jour du document anglais préparé pour la treizième session de la Conférence des Parties (COP 13) de la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques (CCNUCC). Falmouth, MA: Woods Hole Research Center.

Debroux, L. and 53 others (eds.) 2007. Forests in post-conflict Democratic Republic of Congo: Analysis of a priority agenda. 82 pp., ISBN 979-24-4665-6.

Laporte, N., F. Merry, A. Baccini, S. Goetz, J. Stabach, and M. Bowman. 2007. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A First Look. Policy brief for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), Thirteenth Session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia. Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA. http://www.whrc.org/policy/pdf/cop13/Africa_Bali_Booklet.pdf

Laporte N.T, F. Merry, P. Lefebvre, G. Fiske, R. Grosh (2005), The Gorongosa National Park Program –

Geospatial database, Report to the Carr Foundation. 17 pp.

Laporte N., T.S. Lin (2004), Assessing Land Cover for Carbon Studies in the Forest Reserves of the Republic of Guinea using Landsat imagery, Technical report to Winrock International, October 2004, 5 pp.

Laporte N., T.S. Lin (2004), Assessing Land Cover and Rates of Change for Carbon Studies in the Republic of

Congo using Landsat imagery, Technical report to Winrok International, June 2004, 7 pp. Laporte N. (2003), Utilisation de la télédétection pour la gestion des ecosystème forestier du nord Congo : Cas des

UFA Kabo, Pokola et Loundoungou, Rapport Technique au Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, USA. 25 pp.

Laporte N., T.S. Lin (2003), Monitoring logging in the tropical forest of Republic of Congo with Landsat imagery,

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), July 2003 Toulouse, France. Laporte N. (2002), Stratification forestière des UFA Kabo, Pokola et Loundoungou, Rapport Technique au Wildlife

Conservation Society, New York, USA. 32 pp. Laporte N. (2002), Validation and accuracy assessment of JERS-1 land-cover classification using LANDSAT land-

cover map and field information for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Technical report - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 6 pp.

Le Moigne J., N. Laporte and N.S. Netanyahu (2001), Enhancement of tropical land cover mapping with wavelet-

based fusion and unsupervised clustering of SAR and Landsat Image Data, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Toulouse, 17-21 September 2001, Toulouse, France, 6pp.

Laporte N. (2001), Forest monitoring in Central Africa, Briefing sheets #13, Biodiversity Support Program, March

2001, Washington DC, 6 pp. Laporte N. (2001), Tropical deforestation in Central Africa, Briefing sheets #6, Biodiversity Support Program, March

2001,Washington DC, 4 pp. Laporte N., I. Bila Isia, P. Biyogo, F. Maisels, E. Bashige, N. Rabenkogo, A. Agondogo (2000), Classification de la

zone Sud de la Réserve de la Lopé, Atelier de la Lopé, Juillet 2000, Gabon. Laporte N. (2000), An integrated forest monitoring system for Central Africa, Synergy UMD Africa projects, April

2000, University of Maryland, 7 pp. Laporte N. (2000), Le Projet NASA Pathfinder, Atelier GOFC (Global Observation of Forest Cover) Afrique

Centrale, Libreville 22-24 Fevrier 2000, 10 pp. Laporte N. (2000), Les Données basse résolution pour le suivi de la dynamique de la végétation tropicale, Atelier

GOFC (Global Observation of Forest Cover) Afrique Centrale, Libreville 22-24 Fevrier2000, 11 pp. Laporte N. (1999), Géographie des relations Ville-Forêt en Afrique centrale - Approche régionale, Biodiversity

Support Program, Décembre 16, 1999, 24 pp. Laporte N. (1999), Assessing land use land cover change in the dense humid forest around settlements in Cameroon:

Comparison of satellite image maps and village household surveys, Report to Center for International Forestry Research, 36 pp.

Laporte N. (1999), Evaluation of the JERS-1 Central Africa data sets for tropical forest monitoring, Central Africa

Regional Program for the Environment, 1999, 10 pp. Laporte N. (1997), Mapping forest types of Central Africa using GAC NDVI time series (1982-1987) and ancillary

information from the UMD Central Africa GIS, Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment, Biodiversity Support Program, September 1997, 25 pp.

Laporte N., C. Justice, B. Lawrence, M. Heinicke (1995), The use of time series satellite data for characterizing and monitoring the seasonal forests and savannas of Central Africa, Biodiversity Support Program, November 1995, 40 pp.

Laporte N. (1995), Analysis of tropical forest seasonality using GAC series, Tropical Ecosystem Environment

Observation by Satellite (TREES), May 1995, 20 pp. Laporte N. (1994), Landsat Pathfinder-TREES Collaboration, Tropical Ecosystem Environment Observation by

Satellite (TREES), March 1994, 20 pp. Justice C., N. Horning, N. Laporte (1993), Remote Sensing and GIS Contributions to a climate change program for

Central Africa, Central Africa Global Climatic Change Technical Report, distributed by Biodiversity Support Program, Washington DC, 30 pp.

Laporte N. (1992), AVHRR analysis of Central Africa, Tropical Ecosystem Environment Observation by Satellite

(TREES) project, June 1992, 20 pp. + maps. Laporte N. (1992), Use of NOAA AVHRR data to map the dense humid forest of Central Africa, Report to the FAO,

May 1992, 7 p., maps and appendix.

POLICY ENGAGEMENT

My recent policy work is focused on REDD+ to better inform critical forest and climate policy at national and international level. The scientific results were presented at international policy conference and several educational materials were shared with stakeholders to foster discussions on the best practices for forest and carbon monitoring techniques in the tropics. Methods for estimating carbon flux have also been presented at various UNFCCC Conferences of the Parties (COPs) as part mechanisms to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+). I participated in COP13 (Bali), COP14 (Poznan), COP15 (Copenhagen) and COP16 (Cancun). At the national level, I organized, together with economist Dr. Andrea Cattaneo, the first Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) workshop and debate on REDD+, which included government and civil society representatives in Kinshasa (2008). I also helped to draft DRC’s Readiness Program Idea Note (R-PIN) that was later submitted by DRC’s government to the World Bank. In January 2009, I was asked by the Congolese government and the World Bank to participate as an expert with the first UN-REDD and World Bank joint REDD+ mission to assist the DRC government with the development of their REDD+ strategy and coordination team. I served as an expert on capacity building for the development of operational forest and carbon monitoring systems (MRV) that could generate the necessary information to support avoided deforestation policy mechanisms and “smart growth” development scenarios in the DRC. I was also invited to present historical carbon emission baseline (1990-2000) and future scenarios of CO2 emissions for the DRC at a January 2009 COMIFAC workshop in Kinshasa organized by ONFi (The International French Office of Forests). Then, using higher resolution imagery, future land cover and land-use change estimates for the DRC were developed under different policy scenario (conservation, business as usual and increased agriculture). The results of this analysis were published in 2015 and have been considered as part of the national plan for investment that was presented by the DRC government at the COP21 in Paris.I have been also working on better quantifying emissions from deforestation and degradation in East Africa to better inform REDD+ national policies in, Zambia and Kenya, a four year project funded by NASA ending in 2017 (Lead Science Pi).

EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH Multimedia Laporte N., V. Ambougou, D. Knight (2009). Development of a series of French posters, flyers and pamphlets for francophone tropical Africa.

Walker, W., J. Stabach, G. Fiske, N. Laporte (2009). Development of WebGIS applications tailored to decision makers in a user-friendly format for non-technical users, but also with advanced functionality for technically-inclined user groups. The application provides data for six protected areas throughout Uganda (Budongo and Bugoma Forest Reserves, Kibale National Park, Murchison Falls Conservation Area, Queen Elizabeth National Park, and Semuliki National Park). Stabach J, Laporte N, Fiske G., (2007-2009). Development of a series of CDs data samplers for the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) combining field base monitoring surveys with GIS and remote sensing derived maps (1985-2006). Data were normalized for survey efforts and display ranger patrol data that includes animal sightings and illegal activities (poaching signs, encroachment) with underlying data layers. Stabach J, Laporte N. (2007). An interactive WebGIS application of historical CO2 emissions in the DRC. Laporte N., G. Fiske, W. Walker (2006), Uganda great apes poster series. National Museum of Natural History in Kampala. Posters were designed by Sabrina Krief and Erica Nichols from the Paris Museum of Natural History as part of the UNEP Great Apes Survival Project. Great Apes maps distribution and satellite imagery products were prepared by the my group. Laporte N.T, G. Fiske, P. Lefebvre, W. Walker, R. Grosh, R. Beilfuss (2006), Gorongosa Data sampler, Educational CD 1: Gorongosa – Contribution to the Gorongosa Program for the Carr Foundation. Laporte N., G. Fiske, M. Ernst (2005), Preliminary List of Great Apes Priority Populations and Sites, Website dedicated to UNEP Great Apes Survival Project, http://www.whrc.org/africa/prioritypops/ Gardiner N., N. Laporte (2004), Remote sensing applications for conservation in the Nouabalé Ndoki National Park, Northern Congo. This educational movie was designed in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). It is based on satellite imagery analysis performed by the WHRC in the in Northern Republic of Congo. The movie is shown on a repetitive basis at AMNH as part of the Congo exhibit. Laporte N. (2000), Contribution to the design and implementation of a new Central African Network for the Observation of Tropical Forests (www.osfac.org) as part of the Global Observations of Forest Cover (GOFC) program. Trainings & Workshops I organized my first remote sensing training workshop in Kenya in 1992, sponsored by the FAO. Since that time I have participated in many other remote sensing training efforts. The most recent series of international workshops were focused on carbon mapping in Tanzania. I am currently assisting the Government of Kenya with technical workshops (November 2014 and May 2015). While based at the WHRC, the first workshop I organized took place in Uganda in 2008, with the goal of informing African technicians and decision-makers involved in environmental planning and natural resource management of new remote sensing tools for fire monitoring in protected areas, forest and carbon mapping to assist with conservation, and improved forest management. The workshop, entitled “New approaches for estimating carbon stocks in protected areas: Integrating remote sensing and field measurements in the Albertine Rift,” took place in the Budongo National Forest Reserve in western Uganda. The workshop sought to integrate remote sensing derived information with field measurements to improve carbon stock estimates, and was attended by over 40 individuals from 17 institutions from seven African countries (Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Sudan, Kenya, and Mozambique). Since that first workshop, my group at the WHRC conducted another 10 capacity-building workshops on the use of remote sensing and field observations for REDD+ and MRV. More than 250 individuals have participated in the workshops to date, which have been held in Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Vietnam and Indonesia. WHRC has also convened eight workshops and consultations in developing countries on readiness for REDD, in which over 200 individuals have participated. More recently, I led a workshops in collaboration with the Jane Goodall Institute and the Clinton Foundation under my NASA Applied Sciences (SERVIR) grant, focusing on capacity building in Tanzania in November 2012, and in

Kenya in 2013 & 2014 at the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD). The workshops brought together African technicians from Forest Ministries, Universities as well as local and international NGOs to share knowledge on forest and carbon monitoring systems. Participants from more than 7 countries of Eastern Africa were present. Ned Horning from the American Museum of National History taught new techniques to map carbon contains in tropical forest trees. In 2012, Dave Thau from Google.com introduced the participants to new mapping tools developed by Google, including a prototype developed in collaboration with WHRC to help countries map their carbon at a lower transaction cost. I also initiated as part of my WHRC activities the Pan-tropical Scholars Program, which has brought together ten scholars from nine developing nations for in-residence training. The remote sensing tropical forests training program was initiated in 2004 and started with African visiting scientists from Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Cameroon and the Republic of Congo to learn about the applications of remote sensing to tropical forest monitoring. Thesis Advising and Postgraduate Scholar Sponsor

• PhD advisor for Noel Aloysius, at Yale University (2014). • Sponsor of 2 postdoctoral researchers. • Graduate advisor for 3 students.

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

• Promotion of remote sensing approaches to monitor carbon sequestration and deforestation, in collaboration with NASA, USAID, UNEP.

• Initiation and development of an Africa visiting scientist program and now a pan-tropical training program at

the Woods Hole Research Center. • Organization and implementation of several remote sensing and GIS training workshops in Africa for park

managers and foresters for improving forest conservation. • Development of web tools for Great Ape conservation, working with the Max Plank Institute (Germany), Harvard

University Peabody Museum, and the Jane Goodall Institute. • Design and implementation of a French remote sensing forest observation network in Central Africa to support

forest conservation under the umbrella of the Global Observation Forest Cover Initiative (OSFAC). • Co-Investigator of NSF Global Rivers project with the WHRC and the Woods Hole Oceanic Institution (WHOI)

on Controls of the flux, age and composition of terrestrial organic Carbon exported by rivers to the ocean http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=19735

• I also developed proposals for NSF in collaboration with epidemiologists working in the DR Congo to develop

maps of malaria distribution and areas at risk of drug resistance. While widespread in most of the Congo, there are few studies on the relationship between deforestation, urbanization and the occurrence and distribution of the malaria vectors.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

NASA Carbon Cycle, Land Cover / Land Use Change and Terrestrial Ecology Panels, 2003 & 2004, Program awards three-year NASA graduate fellowships. Reviewer for numerous Journals including: Ecosystems, Forest Ecology and Management, Global Change Biology, Journal of Biogeography, Remote Sensing of the Environment, and many others.

FUNDING

Since 2000 I have raised, as a principal and co-investigator, about $1 million per year to support my research program. Funding sources include government and private foundations. • Projet d’appui à la société civile et au gouvernement dans le cadre de la REDD en Province de l’Équateur

(Principal Investigator – transferred to Dr. Glenn Bush in June 2014) 2013 – 2016 Funding: African Bank of Development (P-Z1-C00-029, No du Don: 5650155000853) Total Amount: $4,500,717

• Forest carbon assessment for REDD+ in the East Africa SERVIR Region (Principal Investigator – transferred to Dr. Scott Goetz in June 2014) Jan 2013 – Dec 2016 Funding: NASA Applied Sciences Program (NNX12AL27G) Total Amount: $1,068,095

• Forest carbon assessment for REDD+ (Principal Investigator) 2012 – 2013 Funding: Google.org Total Amount: $1,500,000

• Pan-Tropical Mapping of Forest Cover and Associated Above-Ground Carbon Stock (Co-Principal

Investigator) 2008 – 2011 Funding: Gordon and Betty Moore, Google.org, and the David & Lucile Packard foundations Total Amount: $5,230,717

• Collaborative Research: Controls on the Flux, Age, and Composition of Terrestrial Organic Carbon Exported

by Rivers to the Ocean (Co-Investigator) 2009-2011 Funding: National Science Foundation Total Amount: $3,500,000 – WHRC ($842,000)

• The role of natural resources in mitigating political, environmental, and health shocks to extremely poor

households in Southeastern Africa (Principal Investigator) 2007-2009 Funding: NSF Human and Social Dynamics, Thomas Baerwald (Coordinator Environmental Social and Behavioral Science Activities) & Saran Twombly (Program Director for Ecological Biology). Amount: $750,000

• Revitalization of Gorongosa Nationa Park (Principal Investigator) 2007-2009 Funding: Carr Foundation Amount: $150,000

• Forest Biomass and Land-Use Change in Central Africa: Reducing Regional Carbon Cycle Uncertainty

(Principal Investigator) 2005-2009 Funding: NASA Land use Land Cover Change Program (Garik Gutman) Amount: $673,650

• Integrating Earth Science Enterprise Results into Protected Area Decision Support for the African Albertine

Region (Principle Investigator). 2006-2009

Funding: NASA Applied Sciences Program (Woody Turner) Amount: $888,000

• African Carbon Exchange II: a systems approach for diagnosis and prediction of carbon, vegetation and

disturbance dynamics in the natural and anthropogenic grasslands, savannas and forests of Africa (Co-Investigator)

2008-2010 Funding: NASA Carbon Cycle Science Program

Total Amount: $900,000 – WHRC $120,000 • Monitoring the impact of USAID-PRIME/WEST project on the Environment, with special reference to

biodiversity (Principle Investigator). 2006-2008 Funding: Wildlife Conservation Society Amount: $75,000 (subcontract from WCS, Andy Plumptre)

• Developing new tools for the Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP) (Principle Investigator). 2005-2006 Funding: Mark Leighton - Harvard Peabody Museum Amount: $20,000

• Linkages between natural resources and poverty in communities surrounding the Gorongosa National Park of

Mozambique (Principle Investigator). 2005-2006 Funding: Carr Foundation Amount: $91,923

• Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment - CARPE/UMD (Principle Investigator). 2002-2003 Source of Support: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Amount: $120,000 (subcontract from Jim Tucker)

• Land use land cover change in the Albertine Rift (Principle Investigator). 2001-2003 Funding: Wildlife Conservation Society Amount: $19,770 (subcontract from WCS, Andy Plumptre)

• Validation of the Central Africa JERS-1 land cover classification (Principle Investigator).

2001-2002 Funding: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA. Amount: $20,200

• Monitoring the State of the Forest in the DRC - CARPE/UMD (Principle Investigator).

2001-2003 Source of Support: NASA Goddard Space Center Amount: $45,290 (subcontract from Jim Tucker)

• An Integrated Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa (Principle Investigator).

2000-2003 Funding: NASA Land Use - Land Cover Change Program (Garik Gutman) Amount: $369,000

PRESENTATIONS Invited Laporte N., 1-4 September 2015, Forest carbon assessment for REDD+ in the East Africa SERVIR region, Results and Perspectives, SAGE—NASA-SERVIR Summit, USAID, Bangkok. Laporte N., 15 October 2012, Forest carbon assessment for REDD+ in the East Africa SERVIR region, Filling the gap between Carbon Science and Policy, SERVIR Summit, Huntsville, NASA Marshall Space Center. Laporte N., Horning N., Morgan D., December 2012, Linkages of Biodiversity and Canopy Lidar Metrics in Central Africa, American Geophysical Union, session on Remote Characterization of Vegetation Structure, Function and Condition, San Francisco. Laporte N., 26-30 November 2012, Tropical Forest carbon mapping: Challenges & opportunities - Application to REDD+, Technical & policy workshop on biomass estimation and mapping: from carbon policy to technical training, Malaika Resort, Bagamoyo, Tanzania. Laporte N, 26 October 2011, Putting REDD+ in Perspective, Paris REDD workshop Planet action, http://www.planet-action.org/web/191-redd-workshop-programme.php Laporte N., 7 October 2011, Mapping Tropical Aboveground Biomass with MODIS & LiDAR sensors: Application to REDD. Atelier international sur la foresterie communautaire dans le contexte de la REDD+. University Laval, Quebec. Laporte N., 15-17 November 2010, Mapping Tropical Aboveground Biomass with MODIS & LiDAR sensors. International Biomass meeting, Paris France. Laporte N., 28-29 October 2010. Tropical forest carbon mapping from local to continental scales, Application to REDD+ Workshop on Forest Carbon Stock Mapping and Monitoring Methodologies: From Communities to National Scales. Millennium Sea Breeze Hotel, Bagamoyo, Tanzania. Laporte N., December 2010. Monitoring CO2 Emissions from Forest Loss. Democratic Republic of Congo (1990-2000). CIFOR Forest Day, UNFCCC COP 16, Cancun, Mexico. Laporte N., December 2010 Mapping Industrial Agriculture in Central Africa: Democratic Republic of Congo case study. Agriculture and Rural Development Day. Marketplace & Exhibition. UNFCCC COP16. Cancun, Mexico. Laporte N., 2-4 February 2010, Cartographie de la biomasse, Conférence Internationale de la COMIFAC sur le suivi des stocks et flux de carbone, Centre de conférence du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Brazzaville, République du Congo http://observatoire-comifac.net/carbonCconfBrazza.php Laporte, N., March 2010, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (CESBIO), Toulouse France. Laporte, N., 2009, A new map of biomass for Africa, CIFOR Forest Day Conference, Copenhagen. Laporte N., 9 June 2009, Tropical Forest carbon mapping from local to continental scale, Planet Action Conference, Toulouse, France. http://www.planet-action.org Laporte N., January 2009, Aperçu des activités de support a la REDD du WHRC en RDC, COMIFAC workshop Kinshasa, DRC. Laporte N., August 2008, The role of high resolution imagery for the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), ESRI Annual Users Conference, Planet Action Climate Change, San Diego, CA

Laporte, N., 19-20 August 2008, Monitoring systems for the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, presented at the Forum on Readiness for REDD, Accra Ghana. Laporte N., 10-11 March 2008, Un système de suivi de la dégradation liée à l'exploitation forestière en Afrique centrale, Atelier REDD, COMIFAC, Paris France. Laporte, N., P. Jantz, J. Stabach, M. McLennan, and A. Plumptre, July 2007, Habitat modeling utilizing remote sensing tools for chimpanzee conservation in western Uganda, Society for Conservation Biology Conference, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Laporte, N., A. Baccini, J. Stabach, S. Goetz, W. Walker, R. Houghton, J. Ipalaka, and V. Kasulu, December 2007, A Carbon Monitoring System for Tropical Countries - Democratic Republic of Congo Case Study. UNFCCC COP-13, Bali Indonesia. Laporte, N., W. Walker, J. Stabach, G. Fiske, G. Nangendo, A. Plumptre, and A. Rwetsiba, April 2007, Integrated Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa (INFORMS) and the Protected Area Watch in the Albertine Rift (PAWAR): Remote Sensing Tools for Conservation Policy – Albertine Rift Region Case Study. The George Wright Society Biennial Conference, St. Paul Minnesota. Laporte N., 23 April 2007, Reducing carbon emission uncertainties in Africa, The Yale School of Forestry and Environment, New Haven CT. Laporte N., June 2007, The role of remote sensing for conservation research in the Albertine Rift, Kibale, Uganda. Laporte N. 2005), “Forest Conservation in Central Africa - The Role of High Resolution Imagery for Mapping Habitat and Monitoring Logging” Center For Tropical Ecology and Conservation, 28 October, Antioch University Graduate school, Keene, NH. Laporte N. 2005), “Monitoring the forests of Central Africa and the Albertine Rift”, The Yale School of Forestry and Environment, Yale, 23 April. Laporte N. 2003), “Monitoring the forests of central Africa”, The Forest Congo Basin Forest Partnership, CARPE Phase II Workshop, Kinshasa, 17-19 March. Laporte N. 2002), “Mapping the forests of Central Africa”, The Yale School of Forestry and Environment, Yale, 23 April. Laporte N. 2001), “An Integrated Forest Monitoring System for Central Africa”, Dept. Geography University of MD, Seminar Series. Laporte N. 2000), Les besoins d'informations pour l'analyse des changements climatiques mondiaux, Atelier GOFC Global Observation of Forest Cover) Afrique Centrale, Libreville 22-24 February. Selected others: Laporte N., W. Walker, G. Fiske, and J. Stabach. 2006. Monitoring Great Apes habitats with satellite imagery. The Great Apes Scientific Workshop on Great Ape Priority Populations and Sites. April 18-20 GRASP Scientific Workshop in Paris, UNESCO. Posters series, http://www.whrc.org/africa/prioritypops/ Pintea L., N. Laporte, A. Plumptre, M. Leighton, 25-30 June 2006, Prioritizing and monitoring Great Ape populations with satellite imagery and GIS: The case of Tanzania, International Primatological Society, Entebbe Uganda, http://www.asp.org/ips/ips2006/ Walker W., N. Laporte, L. Pintea, 25-30 June 2006, Remote sensing and geographic information systems: an introduction to tools and techniques for Great Apes research and conservation, International Primatological Society, Entebbe, http://www.asp.org/ips/ips2006/

Laporte N., A.J. Plumptre, 25-30 June 2006, Operational habitat monitoring for species conservation: Remote sensing tools for chimpanzee conservation in Western Uganda, International Primatological Society, Entebbe, http://www.asp.org/ips/ips2006/ Laporte N., A.J. Plumptre, W. Walker, 25-30 June 2006, Land use & land cover change in great ape habitat of the Uganda Albertine, International Primatological Society, Entebbe. http://www.asp.org/ips/ips2006/ Laporte N., T.S. Lin, 24-27 February 2004, Suivi de l’exploitation forestière tropicale en République du Congo avec des images Landsat, Conférence Internationale sur le Transfert de Technologies Ecologiquement Rationnelles et le Renforcement des Capacités en vue d’une Gestion Durable des Forêts Brazzaville, une initiative nationale soutenue par le FNUFA l’invitation du Gouvernement de la République du Congo. Laporte N., July 2004, Forest Conservation in Central Africa: the role of high-resolution imagery for mapping habitat and monitoring logging, Society for Conservation Biology, New York. Lin T.S., N. Laporte, D. Devers, 14-18 June 2003, Impacts of Large-Scale Selective Logging on Ecosystem Services in the Northern Republic of Congo, AGU Chapman Conference, Ecosystem Interactions with Land Use Change, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Laporte N.T., T.S. Lin, July 2003, Monitoring logging in the tropical forest of Republic of Congo with Landsat imagery, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Toulouse France. http://www.igarss03.com Lin T.S., N. Laporte, 8-12 December 2003, Using IKONOS and Aerial Videography to Validate Landsat Land Cover Maps of Central African Tropical Rain Forests, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California. Laporte N.T. and T.S. Lin, 8-12 December 2003, Land Use Land Cover Change in the Albertine Region of Uganda, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California (This presentation was also contributed to the NASA booth at the World Parks Congress) Laporte N.T., July 2000, Atelier de formation a la télédétection et Système d’information Géographique pour le Monitoring des Forêts en Afrique Centrale, Atelier de la Lopé, Gabon. Organisateurs: Nadine Laporte & Lee White.