About
Dr. Lauren Parker is the managing director for Secure Water Future, a $10M multi-state, multi-institution sustainable agricultural systems project funded by USDA-NIFA. She is also the project manager for the California Energy Commission FlowPywr project and the AgAID subaward at UC Merced. Lauren's background is in applied climatology, primarily focusing on issues surrounding perennial agriculture and agricultural water resources in a changing climate. She brings her experience with stakeholder outreach, science communication, education, and team facilitation, to bear in leading multidisciplinary and decision-enabling projects on some of our most pressing societal challenges.
Prior to joining UC Merced, Lauren was an applied climate scientist, research program manager, and program coordinator at the USDA California Climate Hub and a project scientist at UC Davis. Lauren has also held positions as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Davis and the University of Idaho; as an Assistant Professor of Geoscience at Salt Lake Community College in Salt Lake City, Utah; and as a GIS and Natural Resources Specialist at Sperry Ridge in Eugene, Oregon. Lauren holds a PhD from the Department of Geography at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho; an MS from the Department of Geoscience at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon; and an AB from the Department of Earth and Environment at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Outside of work, Lauren spends time with her friends, her dog, and her partner playing in the mountains and the desert, and on rivers across the West.
Prior to joining UC Merced, Lauren was an applied climate scientist, research program manager, and program coordinator at the USDA California Climate Hub and a project scientist at UC Davis. Lauren has also held positions as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Davis and the University of Idaho; as an Assistant Professor of Geoscience at Salt Lake Community College in Salt Lake City, Utah; and as a GIS and Natural Resources Specialist at Sperry Ridge in Eugene, Oregon. Lauren holds a PhD from the Department of Geography at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho; an MS from the Department of Geoscience at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon; and an AB from the Department of Earth and Environment at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Outside of work, Lauren spends time with her friends, her dog, and her partner playing in the mountains and the desert, and on rivers across the West.
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