Welcome, Emma Grover!
We’re excited to welcome Emma Grover to the NYBG Science team as Project Manager for the Nurturing Nature Initiative! She has joined us in March of 2025 and will be based in the Center for Conservation and Restoration Ecology.
This new Nurturing Nature initiative, launched with Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), brings together experts from around the world to create a roadmap for using plants to build resilience to climate change.
Emma is an ecologist and project management professional, joining us after working as a consultant in the nature-based solutions space. In her previous role, she contributed to the design and implementation of international, multi-stakeholder sustainable land management projects, with a focus on agroforestry systems, grasslands, and croplands across the globe.
She holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia and a Master in Environmental Science (MESc) from the Yale School of the Environment, where her thesis explored how bioclimatic variables shape leaf functional traits in lowland tropical rainforest trees.
Please join us in giving Emma a warm welcome as she begins this important work!