Rachel Martin is a DPhil researcher at the University of Oxford, Department of Biology and Technical Manager with the Nature Positive Initiative. Her research explores how economic systems can be transformed to deliver nature-positive outcomes for biodiversity. She focuses on linking biodiversity metrics, economic contexts, and systems change to better understand the cumulative effects of human activities on nature and to identify scalable actions that drive regenerative change. She is interested in achieving net positive outcomes for nature by 2030, advancing full recovery by 2050, and identifying the economic pathways needed to reach these goals.
Before joining Oxford, Rachel led the Extinction Solutions Index at Conservation X Labs, evaluating innovative approaches to halt biodiversity loss. Her wider experience spans conservation technology, climate adaptation, water quality solutions, marine ecosystem indicators with NOAA, and species distribution modelling.
Related Research Themes
Ecology
Testing the effectiveness of different ecological approaches for nature recovery to support biodiversity and the delivery of ecosystem services such as climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Scale and Technology
Tracking and evaluating nature recovery at both fine resolution and large spatial scales utilising state-of-the-art remote sensing, big data, and deep machine learning techniques.
Systems
Developing a novel Analysis and Decision Platform to integrate nature recovery into land-use and infrastructure planning, and exploring scenarios that can deliver local, national and international commitments to nature, climate change and sustainable development.
