Dr. Noel Gurwick

Senior Scientist

 Noel Gurwick is an ecosystem scientist in the Food & Environment Program specializing in climate change and nutrient cycling. He assesses agriculture’s potential to mitigate climate change, and identifies agricultural systems and practices that reduce nutrient loss to downstream ecosystems and the atmosphere.

Before coming to UCS, Dr. Gurwick was an American Association for the Advancement of Science Policy Fellow in the State Department’s Bureau of Economics, Energy and Business Affairs, where he co-managed a partnership with Brazil to support biofuels development in Central America and the Caribbean. Prior to that, Dr. Gurwick conducted research on global change and terrestrial ecosystems at the Carnegie Institution, Department of Global Ecology.

Dr. Gurwick serves on the Climate Action Reserve’s working group to develop nutrient management protocols for agricultural offsets. Dr. Gurwick is also a member of the outreach/policy committee of the American Geophysical Union, and the advisory board to Issues in Ecology. In the past, he sat on the Tompkins County Environmental Management Council and worked as the research translator at the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve to improve communication between the science and policy communities concerned with coastal zone management.

Dr. Gurwick received a B.S. in biology from Brown University. He holds an M.S. in Natural Resource Policy and Management and a Ph.D. in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Change from Cornell University.