Maris has 20 years of experience in the climate, environmental protection, and energy sectors is responsible for implementing new strategic opportunities to harness the power of markets for high impact emission reduction and removals actions including geologic storage of carbon and high-GWP gas emissions abatement. She specializes in building strategies for challenging technical issues within complicated political and policy environments such as climate change and carbon mitigation, water use and protection, sustainability, education, and community engagement. Maris is a licensed geologist and has extensive field experience in both environmental and oil and gas operations. Maris has a BS in Earth Science from UC Santa Cruz and a MS in Geology from UC Davis.