Land Use & Open Space Conservation

Kristy Deiner is fascinated and humbled by biodiversity and has spent hours, likely years, immersed in lakes and rivers from mountain tops to tropical islands unwinding the tangled banks of life to understand their inter-workings and connections. Discovery, exploration and learning are her key motivators. She has worked across a spectrum of institutions from museums to universities to non-profits and for profits across the US and Europe as a scientist, professor founder and CEO, but always a student.

Dr. Charney uses the tools of spatial ecology to guide conservation of sensitive species and ecosystems in the face of global change and expanding human populations. Recent projects include: modeling impacts of climate change on Galapagos...

Steve Blackmer is founder and executive director of Kairos Earth, a non-profit organization based in Canterbury, NH, that seeks to renew a widespread understanding of the natural world as a bearer of the sacred and to restore this awareness...

John J. Berger is an energy and environmental policy specialist and a senior research fellow at the Pacific Institute. His 11 books include Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth and Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis, which won the 2015 International Book Award for Science. His journalistic work has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.

Currently, Diana is Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University where she works on Quaternary Death Valley paleoclimates, paleohydrology, and geomorphology. Diana has been funded by the state of Arizona to begin a riparian...

Jim has combined 15 years of computer and civil engineering experience with his long term love for conservation in a new career in natural resource science. In 1996, he completed his PhD program which analyzed the influence geographic...