Christoph Nolte
Affiliated Faculty, IGS
Assistant Professor, Earth & Environment
- Education
- PhD, Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan
- chrnolte@bu.edu
Christoph Nolte, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a conservation scientist interested in understanding and comparing the effectiveness of efforts to protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems. Where do they happen? What do they cost? What difference do they make? His research projects often combine remote sensing and social data on policies, properties, or sales, with quasi-experimental causal inference or predictive machine learning.
Nolte teaches environmental statistics, economics, data science for conservation decisions, and the development of cluster-based pipelines for analyses of environmental data. He enjoys collaborating with government agencies, donors, land trusts, indigenous governments, and early-career researchers. Before coming to Boston to speak American and Python, he studied in four languages and pursued conservation research in 24 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.