Maura Shelton

Maura Shelton is a Research Associate with the Forest Systems and Bioenergy in the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington. She is presently an NSF IGERT Bioenergy Fellow developing geospatial techniques to determine appropriate sites from biomass removal that include cultural attributes. She is developing the decision tools for determining how biomass can be removed from forests without impairing their resiliency to disturbances and to maintain their provision of ecosystem...See more

Maura Shelton is a Research Associate with the Forest Systems and Bioenergy in the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington. She is presently an NSF IGERT Bioenergy Fellow developing geospatial techniques to determine appropriate sites from biomass removal that include cultural attributes. She is developing the decision tools for determining how biomass can be removed from forests without impairing their resiliency to disturbances and to maintain their provision of ecosystem services. She is also coordinating the capacity of indigenous communities in the Philippines and in Indonesia as well as an American Indian tribes' to manage their own energy systems and to determine how much forest materials can be sustainably collected. She has previous experience working on capacity building in the Philippines and in China. She is working with an Indonesian non-profit to develop their capacity to train villagers in the use of spatial data to assess their forest resources. She is a co-collaborator for a chapter in an upcoming book 'Bio-resource Based Energy for Sustainable Societies' from Nova Science Publishers. She has previous careers in economics and financial analysis and secondary education. She holds a Bachelors and Masters of Science in Economics from Baylor University and a teaching certificate from Seattle University. See less