Natural Resource Management

Jessica Davenport supports the creation of resilient landscapes for people and nature in the San Francisco Bay Area as Deputy Program Manager for both the California State Coastal Conservancy’s Bay Area Program and the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority.

Robert is on the faculty at Clemson University in South Carolina. As a doctoral student at the University of Maine (Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2005) working with Fellow and Leadership Grantee Aram Calhoun, he received a fellowship...

Dave Wiley is the Research Coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency’s (NOAA) Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and has been investigating the marine environment for over 25 years. He received his PhD in...

Eunice is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She completed her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz and has taught at the...

As Stewardship Director for Northwest Watershed Institute (NWI), Jude focuses her work on the Tarboo Creek Watershed Restoration Program, an effort to restore and protect native salmon and wildlife habitat to a 7,000 acre rural watershed on...

Heather works in southeast Oregon for the Nature Conservancy coordinating a broad cooperative effort to conserve and manage sage steppe. She previously worked for the Forest Service in Bishop, CA as a range manager. She has a Master’s...

Jessica Levine is the Conserving Land and Water Strategy Lead for The Nature Conservancy in New England and the Coordinator of the Staying Connected Initiative, a binational landscape connectivity partnership. She serves on the Executive...

Alex is an assistant professor of Agroecology in the School for Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. UTRGV is located in south Texas in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, considered one of the...

Andrew Kulmatiski's Switzer supported dissertation research compared the relationship between native plants and their soils to the relationship between exotic plants and their soils. Andrew found that exotic plants created soils that...