Lindsay K. Campbell is a Research Social Scientist with the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, based at the NYC Urban Field Station. She is also an affiliated faculty member and adjunct professor at City University of New York Graduate Center, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and a visiting scientist with the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.

Her research explores the dynamics of environmental governance, civic engagement, and natural resource stewardship -- with an emphasis on issues of environmental and social justice. She is joint PI of the Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP), which maps environmental stewards’ social networks and spatial territories in 20 locations globally. In addition to contributing to scholarly understanding of civic capacity, social infrastructure, and networked governance, she aims to amplify the voices and experiences of stewards’ themselves through exhibitions (Who Takes Care of New York?), essays, and convenings. She co-led the Living Memorials Project research, which examined the stewardship of open space post-September 11, received the 2007 EDRA/Places Award for Research, and led to editing the Forest Service volume Green Readiness, Response, and Recovery: A Collaborative Synthesis.

Campbell has developed a number of applied projects at the interface of research and practice in urban sustainability. She co-led the Social and Site Assessment, a partnership with NYC Parks and the Natural Areas Conservancy to understand the use, value, and meaning of urban green space. She was a member of the MillionTreesNYC Advisory Committee and Research and Evaluation Subcommittee and the Forest for All New York City coalition leadership team. She is the author of City of Forests, City of Farms: Sustainability Planning for New York City’s Nature, published by Cornell University Press. In 2015, Dr. Campbell won the Northern Research Station Director’s Award recognizing her accomplishments as an Early Career Scientist. In addition to her research, Lindsay creates transdisciplinary spaces of collaboration between land managers, scientists, artists, and other practitioners and co-directs the NaturePLACE Collaborative Arts Program. 

Dr. Campbell holds a BA in Public Policy from Princeton University, a Master’s in City Planning from MIT, and a PhD in Geography from Rutgers University.