Dr. Adam Moreno is the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) manager of Nature-Based Strategies. He leads CARB’s science and modeling to identify the role that natural and working lands play in the state’s efforts in becoming carbon neutral. This work incorporates modeling, remote sensing, and data analytics to set carbon targets, track progress towards these targets, assess the effectiveness of policies, programs, and management strategies, and to use all of this information to inform policy development. He was previously an earth scientist at NASA Ames Research Center and has also been a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, South America, and a wildland firefighter as a hotshot with the U.S. forest service. He holds a bachelors in computer engineering, a masters in ecological modeling, and a doctorate in remote sensing and forest ecology.