Starry Sprenkle-Hyppolite, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Restoration Science
Dr. Sprenkle-Hyppolite joined Conservation International’s Natural Climate Solutions team in July 2020, following more than a decade of work in the humanitarian-development nexus in Haiti. While in Haiti she led innovative programming in natural climate solutions including climate-smart resiliency, mitigation and adaptation.
Dr. Sprenkle-Hyppolite’s research in Haiti combined geospatial datasets and remote sensing with on-the-ground data collected from reforestation sites to analyze the environmental and technical factors determining reforestation success. With Conservation International, her work focuses on supporting science-driven restoration and monitoring, focused on carbon capture.
Dr. Sprenkle-Hyppolite is leading a global study on the additional carbon sequestration potential of trees in agroforestry, agricultural and grazing lands, as part of the Exponential Roadmap for Natural Climate Solutions, which outlines a path to reach net zero emissions from the land sector by 2030. She led the development of the monitoring framework for the Priceless Planet Coalition, which aims to restore 100 million trees by 2025, and participates in working groups on global restoration monitoring. She also leads work developing low-cost methodologies to estimate carbon capture in shade-grown coffee to help smallholder farmers access carbon markets and incentivize increased carbon capture and storage on coffee farms.
Dr. Sprenkle-Hyppolite joined Conservation International’s Natural Climate Solutions team in July 2020, following more than a decade of work in the humanitarian-development nexus in Haiti. While in Haiti she led innovative programming in natural climate solutions including climate-smart resiliency, mitigation and adaptation.
Dr. Sprenkle-Hyppolite’s research in Haiti combined geospatial datasets and remote sensing with on-the-ground data collected from reforestation sites to analyze the environmental and technical factors determining reforestation success. With Conservation International, her work focuses on supporting science-driven restoration and monitoring, focused on carbon capture.
Dr. Sprenkle-Hyppolite is leading a global study on the additional carbon sequestration potential of trees in agroforestry, agricultural and grazing lands, as part of the Exponential Roadmap for Natural Climate Solutions, which outlines a path to reach net zero emissions from the land sector by 2030. She led the development of the monitoring framework for the Priceless Planet Coalition, which aims to restore 100 million trees by 2025, and participates in working groups on global restoration monitoring. She also leads work developing low-cost methodologies to estimate carbon capture in shade-grown coffee to help smallholder farmers access carbon markets and incentivize increased carbon capture and storage on coffee farms.