Bronwen Stanford

Lead River Scientist
Freshwater
bronwen.stanford@TNC.ORG

As the Lead River Scientist in the California Water Program, Bronwen provides science leadership and technical expertise for a variety of projects that seek to improve river flows and water management for freshwater biodiversity throughout California. Projects include the development of statewide tools and datasets, as well as site-specific efforts to test these tools and identify opportunities to improve river conditions.

Prior to joining The Nature Conservancy, Bronwen was an Applied Ecologist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute and a Senior Environmental Scientist in the Instream Flow Program of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Bronwen holds a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she studied land use impacts on stream restoration and recovery.

What Bronwen is working on now:

Currently I am working to evaluate and identify appropriate uses for a new model estimating actual daily flows for all rivers in the state, a tool that we’re hoping can help us evaluate flow alteration and identify management targets in rivers that otherwise lack reliable data.