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title: "Ryan R. Bart"
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        - text: LinkedIn
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          href: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanrbart/
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          href: mailto:rrbart@gmail.com
        - text: C.V.
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Hello! I’m Ryan Bart, a scientist at the [California Air Resources Board (CARB)](https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/), where I work in the [Nature-Based Strategies Section](https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/nature-based-strategies/about).
My work focuses on ecosystem modeling—using simulations of present and future conditions to understand how vegetation in California’s Natural and Working Lands contributes to the state’s goal of [carbon neutrality by 2045](https://lci.ca.gov/climate/carbon-neutrality.html).

My background is in geography broadly, and more specifically in ecohydrology—the study of how ecological and hydrological systems interact.
I’m also a principal developer for [RHESSys](http://rhessys.github.io), a process-based ecohydrologic model that explores feedbacks among vegetation, water, nutrients, and fire.

I was born and raised in California, and after having lived up and down the state, I currently reside in the Sacramento region with my wife, Ana, and our two boys.

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