Helen graduated from Stanford in 1995 with a B.S. in Earth Systems. She received the Firestone Prize for her honors thesis on construction and demolition waste recycling in Hong Kong. She interned in the environmental remediation department...
Jackie is a Senior Attorney on NRDC's litigation team in San Francisco, where she litigates a broad range of environmental cases in state and federal court. Before joining NRDC, she practiced environmental and land use law on behalf of...
Amy Wilson Morris has led community-based park, trail, and open space planning projects throughout the western United States. She specializes in working with diverse partners to build community consensus and leading a wide range of...
Katherine is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Science at Brown University. Her research group at Brown works in the field of Conservation Medicine - an emerging discipline that resides at the intersection of environmental...
Scott Fruin works in the Environmental Health Division at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, focusing on exposure assessment and field measurements to support longitudinal health impact studies. One of his research interests has been...
Southern California is notorious for its chronically polluted water bodies, from the affluent areas of Malibu to the more industrial city of Long Beach. California Assembly Bill 411 requires that city and county health departments regularly monitor impaired water bodies for fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and that they notify the public of water quality problems.
Myra Finkelstein’s research focuses on human impacts to wildlife with an emphasis on contaminant-induced effects. To fulfill this goal, her research seeks to develop links in the often difficult-to-understand causal chain between...
In 2008, Ludmilla completed her doctoral degree in Molecular Toxicology at UC berkeley focusing on the aquatic chemistry and toxicology of pharmaceuticsls in our waters. Following her graduation from Berkeley, Ludmilla went to France on a...
Drs. Nithya Ramanathan and Scott Fruin worked under this Collaborative Initiatives Fund grant to develop cell phone technology that can accurately capture and measure noise levels. This collaboration addressed the problem of environmental...
Switzer Fellows Dr. Kate Smith, Assistant Professor at Brown University and Senior Research Scientist at the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and Dr. Myra Finkelstein, Research Associate at UC Santa Cruz in Microbiology and...
