Jesse A. Goldstein

Jesse (he/him) manages data, models ecosystem services, communicates results, and trains the user community as a member of the Natural Capital Alliance’s Stanford team. He is an environmental scientist and educator with a passion for supporting conservation projects that maximize ecological, economic, and social benefits and equity. He began his ecology career as a field researcher restoring native amphibian habitat in alpine zones throughout California and has worked on a major marine conservation project in Galapagos, Ecuador. Jesse specialized in Conservation Planning while earning his Master of Environmental Science and Management degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds a B.S. in Environmental Biology from Southern Oregon University.

Contact

jgldstn@stanford.edu

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Publications

3Ps Colombia Case Study. (2025). Advancing Ecosystem Accounting for Financing Protected Areas. IDB. https://publications.iadb.org/en/advancing-ecosystem-accounting-financing-protected-areas-colombia-case-study
3Ps Colombia Final Report. (2025). Advancing Ecosystem Accounting for Financing Protected Areas in Colombia. IDB. https://publications.iadb.org/en/advancing-ecosystem-accounting-financing-protected-areas-colombia-final-report
Avances en la contabilidad ecosistémica para el financiamiento de las áreas protegidas en Colombia: Estudio de caso. (2025). IDB Publications. https://doi.org/10.18235/0013735
Avances en la contabilidad ecosistémica para el financiamiento de las áreas protegidas en Colombia: Informe final. (2025). IDB Publications. https://doi.org/10.18235/0013736
3Ps The Philippines Final Report. (2025). Enhancing Integrated Watershed Management Through Natural Capital Approaches. Natural Capital Project. https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/gd055rr6076/3Ps%20Philippines%20Final%20Report%20100925.pdf
Natural capital accounting reveals ecosystems’ role in water and energy security in Colombia’s Sinú Basin. (2025). Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 309. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02254-9
Sustainable land and irrigation management to limit loss of hydropower in the Andes-Amazon headwaters. (2024). Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01738-4
An open-source approach for measuring corporate impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity. (2024). Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01797-7
Expanding the E in ESG with high-resolution global mapping of ecosystem services and corporate physical assets . (2024). Preprint. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.170967630.06341452/v1
Natural Capital Project, ., & Stanford, . (2024). Valoracion De Los Servicios Ecosistemicos Del Rio Sinu Y El Golfo De Morrosquillo Aportes A La Economia Regional. DNP. https://naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj25256/files/media/file/valoracion-de-los-servicios-ecosistemicos-del-rio-sinu-y-el-golfo-de-morrosquillo-aportes-a-la-economia-regional.pdf
Langhans, K. E., Schmitt, R. J. P., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Anderson, C. B., Vargas Bolaños, C., Vargas Cabezas, F., Dirzo, R., Goldstein, . J. A., Horangic, T., Miller Granados, C., Powell, T. M., Smith, . J. R., Alvarado Quesada, I., Umaña Quesada, A., Monge Vargas, R., Wolny, S., & Daily, G. C. . (2022). Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica. Ecosystem Services, 57, 101470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101470
Demonstrating the Value of the Environment in Achieving Colombia’s Development Goals. (2021). Natural Capital Project. https://naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj25256/files/media/file/woods_nat_cap_colombia_goals_rb_english_v06_web.pdf