Marcia DeLonge is a senior scientist in the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Dr. DeLonge conducts scientific research and analyses identifying practices that lead to healthy, sustainable food and farming systems. Her work seeks viable opportunities within agriculture to both adapt to and mitigate climate change.
Before joining UCS, Dr. DeLonge was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. She worked on a multi-stakeholder project that combined agriculture and climate science by seeking climate change solutions on grazing lands. Her field work and life cycle modeling helped reveal the potential for compost applications to promote sustainable agriculture while mitigating climate change.
Dr. DeLonge has a Ph.D. and M.S. in environmental science from the University of Virginia, where she developed expertise in atmospheric science, hydrology, ecosystem science, and numerical modeling. She also earned a B.A. in environmental science from Northwestern University.
Selected publications
DeLonge, Marcia, and Andrea Basche (2017). Managing Grazing Lands to Improve Soils and Promote Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: A Global Synthesis. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 1–12.
Harden, Jennifer W., Gustaf Hugelius, Anders Ahlström, Joseph C. Blankinship, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Corey R. Lawrence, Julie Loisel, et al (2017). Networking Our Science to Characterize the State, Vulnerabilities, and Management Opportunities of Soil Organic Matter. Global Change Biology
Basche, Andrea, and Marcia DeLonge (2017). The Impact of Continuous Living Cover on Soil Hydrologic Properties: A Meta-Analysis. Soil Science Society of America Journal 0, no. 0:0.
DeLonge, Marcia, and Andrea Basche (2017). Leveraging Agroecology for Solutions in Food, Energy, and Water. Elem Sci Anth 5
Miles, Albie, Marcia S. DeLonge, and Liz Carlisle (2017). Triggering a Positive Research and Policy Feedback Cycle to Support a Transition to Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 41, no. 7: 855–79.
O’Rourke, Megan E., Marcia S. DeLonge, and Ricardo Salvador (2017). Insights from Agroecology and a Critical next Step: Integrating Human Health. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 41, no. 7: 880–84.
DeLonge, Marcia S., Albie Miles, and Liz Carlisle (2016). Investing in the Transition to Sustainable Agriculture. Environmental Science & Policy 55 : 266–73.