Nadine Laporte

Laporte has been a panelist and guest speaker for the Climate Works Foundation and the Woods Hole Research Center. She was the principal investigator for NASA’s Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program (LCLUC) project: An Integrated Forest Monitoring System (INFORMS) for Central Africa. This project began in 2000 and ended in 2003. Collaboration between multiple entities, including the National Forest Services, was being developed for forest monitoring systems in this study. She was also the principal investigator for the project Forest Biomass and Land-Use Change in Central Africa: Reducing Regional Carbon Cycle Uncertainty, starting 2004 and ending in 2007. This study aimed to develop remote sensing that could be utilized on a national level.

Because of the French government’s higher education grants, Laporte was able to get a Diploma of General Studies in Sciences in 1982, Bachelor of Biology in 1984, Master in Biology of Organisms and Populations in 1985, Advanced Studies Degree in Ecology in 1986, and a Doctorate in Tropical Ecology and Remote Sensing in 1990. She received her PhD from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse France.

Nadine Therese Laporte Goetz (born 1961) has been a researcher and professor of forestry and remote sensing for over 30 years. She is a research professor at Northern Arizona University. During her time as a scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center, she was the director of the Africa program. Laporte advocates for REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) as a form of land use to protect forests and lessen deforestation in the DRC and other tropical ecosystems. This method was suggested because it would help protect biodiversity, people living in the area, and maintaining stored carbon in these tropical ecosystems.