Global Solutions

While Interior’s Deputy Secretary, Scarlett initiated the Department’s first-ever Climate Change Task Force.

She served on the Executive Committee of the President’s Management Council. She is author or co-author of publications on climate change adaptation; ecosystem services; large landscape conservation; and science and decision making.

She chairs the Science Advisory Board of NOAA, recently co-chaired the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives Council established in 2014 by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Academy of Sciences Sustainability Roundtable.

She also served on the US Global Change Research Program Committee and was a co-convening lead author of the 2014 National Climate Assessment.

She is on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara.

She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also completed her Ph.D. coursework and exams in political science and political economy.