Dominique M. Bachelet

Dominique Bachelet is a senior climate change scientist and associate professor in Oregon State University, with over 38 years of education and work in the fields of climate change, fire, and ecology. She has worked to make science more accessible, by creating web based resources with various scientific organizations (e.g.Conservation Biology Institute, The Nature Conservancy).

Bachelet served as a quantitative ecologist from 1988 to 1994 in Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Research Lab in Corvallis. for example her work was part of the first dynamic global vegetation model MC1. Her contributions to the field of "climate change science, particularly using simulation modeling of ecosystem response to environmental change" were the basis for her election as a fellow to the American Association of the Advancement of Science.

Bachelet has been involved in a number of collaborative projects with Oregon State, Conservation Biology Institute, and data Basin, that are aimed at communicating climate change information to the community.

Packaging Usable Climate Change Information for Sagebrush (2015) Climate-smart seedlot selection tool (2016), Creating Useful and Usable Climate Tools (2016) Estimating carbon pools and fluxes using a DGVM with prescribed land use: MC1 contribution to the Land Carbon project (2012 to 2016) Soil Vulnerability to future climate in the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative, with implications for vegetation change and water cycle (2015)

Awards American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 2017 At Oregon State University, she has earned 10, 20, and 25 Years Services Award for her contributions to campus.

Personal life Dominique Bachelet speaks both French and English. While often busy with her researches in the field, she enjoys outdoor activities like hiking, biking, and sea kayaking.