UCLA

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Sarah Kapnick

2010 Fellow
Sarah Kapnick, Ph.D., is chief scientist for NOAA. In this role, Dr. Kapnick is responsible for advancing policy and program direction for NOAA’s science and technology priorities. Dr. Kapnick has extensive experience at the intersection of...
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Nancy Steele

1993 Fellow
Dr. Nancy Steele focuses her work on the protection and conservation of land and water, striving always to have a direct positive impact on nature and humanity. She is a professional executive manager who has founded and led nonprofits and served on boards of directors. Endlessly curious, she applies a scientists mind to answering questions that result in turning data into actionable knowledge resulting in good policies and practices.
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Marijke Bekken

1989 Fellow
Marijke's dissertation developed a market-based control plan for locomotives. She was the lead staff developing the 1998 Memorandum of Understanding wherein southern California railroads committed to using only the cleanest locomotives in...
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Maille Lyons

1993 Fellow
Maille is currently a Patent Examiner in the Biotechnology Tech Center at the US Patent and Trademark Office, in Alexandria, VA. Her specialties include microbiology/molecular biology patents.
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Teresa Michelsen

1989 Fellow
Dr. Michelsen is an environmental scientist specializing in the development of sediment and tissue quality guidelines, geochemistry, sediment cleanup and source control, and the development of regulatory programs. She has provided technical...
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Mark Sudol

1994 Fellow
Mark Sudol is the Director of the Navigation and Civil Works Decision Support Center for the Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources. He manages a staff of research scientists and economists that deal with many of our Nation's most...
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Karleen Boyle Sudol

1994 Fellow
Karleen graduated from UCLA with a BA in English and a PhD in biology with an emphasis in marine ecology. Karleen's research focused on human impacts in the marine environment. Her dissertation investigated nutrient cycling and the effects...
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Amy Rogers

2005 Fellow
Amy Rogers is an experienced conservation scientist and practitioner focused on innovating long-term, interdisciplinary solutions to complex environmental challenges. With over twenty years of field experience in tropical Latin America, her...
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Tim Ramirez

1995 Fellow
Tim joined the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) in October 2005 to lead its new Division of Natural Resources within the Water Enterprise. Created in July 2005, the new Division is responsible for integrating environmental...
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Colleen Callahan

2009 Fellow
Colleen Callahan is co-executive director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, which unites the intellectual capital of UCLA with forward-looking civic leaders to advance environmental sustainability through scholarship, research, and...