Nathaniel Newlands

Nathaniel is a Research Scientist with the Government of Canada (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Statistics Canada) based at the Summerland Research and Development Centre in British Columbia, Canada. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Geography with the University of Victoria, Canada.  Nathaniel's research work addresses public-good food-water-energy nexus issues and tackles broad, integrated, complex global problems to help support and advance global sustainable development. He is currently furthering research in climate-smart agriculture (e.g., perennial /viticulture and annual/cereal crops), and developing novel models and tools using artificial intelligence (deep learning) and satellite data to improve forecasting of agricultural crop yield, disease risk, and extreme event impacts. 

Nathaniel is the recipient of a prestigious Government of Canada national award, the Public Service Award of Excellence in Innovation. In 2018, he was an invited International Researcher in Residence with Deakin University’s Centre for Regional and Rural Futures (CeRRF) and in 2019, was awarded a prestigious international fellowship from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Collaborative Research Program (CRP) to collaborate with the Australian Government’s Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics (ABARES). 

He is author of the book, “Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, Uncertainty” published by Taylor and Francis LCC in 2016. He was the lead editor of the e-book “Building and Delivering Real-World, Integrated Sustainability Solutions: Insights, Methods and Case-Study Applications” (2019), and lead editor and contributing author of “Evaluating Climate Change Impacts” CRC Press (2020).

Nathaniel is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Ecology, Anthropocene Science and MDPI Remote-Sensing and an editor (Associate and Review) for Interdisciplinary Climate Change (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Frontiers in Environmental Science and Frontiers in Earth Science Journals). He is Guest Editor of Special Issues with MDPI Agronomy and Remote Sensing.

Nathaniel is the North American Regional Officer (2021-2025) for The International Environmetrics Society (TIES), Vice-Chair of the International Relations in Statistics of the American Statistical Association (ASA) Working Group in Data Science, and a member of the International Statistics Institute (ISI)  (Special Interest Group) in Data Science.

Nathaniel is Co-Chair of GEO DRR Working Group, leading subgroup 2 and he is involved in Tasks 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 (especially), 2.4 and 2.5.