Leah Bremer

Bio

Leah Bremer is the Associate Director for the Institute for Sustainability and Resilience and a Faculty Associate Specialist with the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO) Water Resources Research Center (WRRC). She is interested in policies and strategies to support land and water management and planning for multiple cultural, socio-economic, hydrologic, and ecological benefits. Her work includes interdisciplinary and collaborative projects related to community-based agroforestry, groundwater-dependent ecosystems, and ecosystem compensation programs, including water funds, Payments for Ecosystem Services, and Nature-based Solutions mechanisms. She is also a cooperating faculty member with the departments of Geography and Environment and Natural Resources and Environmental Management. She holds a BA in Psychology from Northwestern University, an MS in Conservation Biology from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and Macquarie University (Australia) and a PhD in Geography from UC Santa Barbara and San Diego State University.