Kate Brauman

Kate A. Brauman is an American scientist who uses an interdisciplinary tool set to examine the interactions between land use change and water resources. Brauman is the lead scientist for the Global Water Initiative at University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment.

Kate Brauman
Alma materPh.D. Stanford University B.A. Columbia University
AwardsFellow, Leshner Leadership Institute

Future Earth Fellow

DISCCRS Scholar
Scientific career
Fieldsecohydrology, ecosystem services, water resources
InstitutionsInstitute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
Websitehttp://environment.umn.edu/staff/kate-brauman/

Early life and education

Brauman, daughter of two chemists (John I. Brauman and Sharon K Brauman), grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and had mixed feelings about being a scientist. She notes that it was her undergraduate mentor, Robert Pollack who helped her see the connections between her desire to be creative and affect things that people care about, with science. Brauman graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Science and Religion from Columbia University in 2000.[1][2] After college she worked at the Natural Resources Defense Council from 2001 to 2004 where she was the Membership and Public Education Senior Associate.[3] She credits her time at the NRDC for making her realize that the environment, in particular water and energy, are areas that people care deeply about; plus questions around water and energy need to be approached from multiple angles: biophysical, economic, and social, to find real-world solutions. After her time with the NRDC, she went on to get her Ph.D. at Stanford University, funded by the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship[4] and the Lucille Packard Stanford Graduate Fellowship, within the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources with an emphasis in hydrologic ecosystem services in 2010.[5] Brauman's interdisciplinary dissertation, under the direction of Gretchen Daily and David Freyberg, brought together elements of hydrology, ecohydrology, and economics to understand the impacts of water extraction on the Big Island of Hawai'i.[6]

Career and research

Currently, Brauman is the Lead Scientist of the Global Water Assessment under the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota.[7] Brauman's research incorporates economics and policy into her examination of the availability of water resources. Much of her work examines how human changes to our landscape, in particular through the growing of food, affect the quality and quantity of our water resources. Brauman's interest in understanding and valuing[8][9] the ecosystem services of landscapes runs through much of her work - whether it be provisioning drinking water, irrigation water,[10] carbon sequestration, or food security.[11][12] Her research, at the intersection of society and science, provides critical information to resource managers (e.g. agricultural producers) that can improve water use efficiency.[10][13]

Brauman also works collaboratively with multiple international groups examining ecosystem services globally. She is part of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a group advocating for recognition of the value of nature to human populations.[14]

Notable publications

Brauman's work, published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals (e.g. Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences, Environmental Research Letters, Water Resources Research) is highly cited.[15] A few of her most highly cited works are listed below:

  • Solutions for a cultivated planet, Nature, 2011[12]
  • The Nature and Value of Ecosystem Services: an overview highlights hydrologic services, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2007[9]
  • Improvements in rop water productivity increase water sustainability and food security - a global analysis, Environmental Research Letters, 2013[10]

Awards and recognition
  • 2018-2019 Fellow for the Leshner Leadership Institute for Public Engagement with Science, run by the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology.[16]
  • 2015, Policy Fellow, Center for the Study of Politics and Government, University of Minnesota[17]
  • 2014, Future Earth Fellow, Future Earth Young Scientists Networking Conference on Ecosystems and Human Well being in the green economy[18]
  • 2012, Planet Under Pressure, Best Early Career Researcher Poster. Water Wise: Are we getting enough crop per drop?

References
  1. "BATFN Board of Directors: Kate Brauman, Stanford University". Bay Area Tropical Forest Network.
  2. "Kate Brauman - Institute on the Environment". Institute on the Environment. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  3. "North Star Chapter". The Sierra Club. 2015-05-12.
  4. "NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award Recipients, 2004 - Data.gov". catalog.data.gov. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  5. "Kate Brauman". Stanford School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences. 2014-09-03.
  6. Brauman, Kate A.; Freyberg, David L.; Daily, Gretchen C. (2010-02-15). "Forest structure influences on rainfall partitioning and cloud interception: A comparison of native forest sites in Kona, Hawai'i". Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 150 (2): 265–275. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.11.011. ISSN 0168-1923.
  7. "Kate Brauman". Institute on the Environment.
  8. Keeler, B. L.; Polasky, S.; Brauman, K. A.; Johnson, K. A.; Finlay, J. C.; O'Neill, A.; Kovacs, K.; Dalzell, B. (6 November 2012). "Linking water quality and well-being for improved assessment and valuation of ecosystem services". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (45): 18619–18624. doi:10.1073/pnas.1215991109. PMC 3494932. PMID 23091018.
  9. Brauman, Kate; Daily, Gretchen; Duarte, T. Ka'eo; Mooney, Harold (21 November 2007). "The Nature and Value of Ecosystem Services: An Overview Highlighting Hydrologic Services". Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 32: 67–98. doi:10.1146/annurev.energy.32.031306.102758.
  10. Brauman, Kate A.; Siebert, Stefan; Foley, Jonathan A (29 May 2013). "Improvements in crop water productivity increase water sustainability and food security—a global analysis". Environmental Research Letters. 8 (2): 024030. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024030.
  11. West, P. C.; Gerber, J. S.; Engstrom, P. M.; Mueller, N. D.; Brauman, K. A.; Carlson, K. M.; Cassidy, E. S.; Johnston, M.; MacDonald, G. K.; Ray, D. K.; Siebert, S. (18 July 2014). "Leverage points for improving global food security and the environment" (PDF). Science. 345 (6194): 325–328. doi:10.1126/science.1246067. PMID 25035492.
  12. "Solutions for a Cultivated Planet". Nature. 478 (7369). 20 October 2011.
  13. Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota (2013-05-28), Are We Getting Enough Crop Per Drop? featuring Dr. Kate A. Brauman, retrieved 2018-11-21
  14. Díaz, Sandra; Pascual, Unai; Stenseke, Marie; Martín-López, Berta; Watson, Robert T.; Molnár, Zsolt; Hill, Rosemary; Chan, Kai M. A.; Baste, Ivar A.; Brauman, Kate A.; Polasky, Stephen; Church, Andrew; Lonsdale, Mark; Larigauderie, Anne; Leadley, Paul W.; Van Oudenhoven, Alexander P. E.; Van Der Plaat, Felice; Schröter, Matthias; Lavorel, Sandra; Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Yildiz; Bukvareva, Elena; Davies, Kirsten; Demissew, Sebsebe; Erpul, Gunay; Failler, Pierre; Guerra, Carlos A.; Hewitt, Chad L.; Keune, Hans; Lindley, Sarah; Shirayama, Yoshihisa (19 January 2018). "Assessing nature's contributions to people" (PDF). Science. 359 (6373): 270–272. doi:10.1126/science.aap8826. PMID 29348221.
  15. "Kate A Brauman - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  16. "2018-2019 Leshner Leadership Institute Public Engagement Fellows: Food & Water Security". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  17. dickx075 (2015-07-24). "Policy Fellows Program". Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
  18. "A Greener Economy: 2014 Young Scientists Networking Conference". Vimeo. Retrieved 2018-11-21.
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