Professor
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
IBioS Founding Member
Research Themes
Biodiversity | Climate change and Adaptation | Conservation | Ecology | Land-use change | Decision Science | Restoration | Modelling
Geographical Area(s) of Research
North America | Austral-Asia
Lab Website
@conservationdecisions
Bluesky
@taragmartin.bsky.social
About
Tara is a Professor with the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and the inaugural Liber Ero Chair in Conservation at the University of British Columbia. She is a global leader in the field of Conservation Decision Science – combining predictive ecological models with decision science to inform what actions to take, where to take them and when to achieve our conservation and natural resource management goals. Tara leads a team of graduate students and research fellows in the Conservation Decisions Lab, seeking to understand, predict and ultimately inform decisions about the impacts of global change on biodiversity and natural resources. Tara and her team work closely with Indigenous communities supporting their research needs and centering Indigenous values, knowledge and sovereignty in co-developed and collaborative research.