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Natural Resource Management

Natural Resource Management

Switzer Fellows work to manage land, water, soil, plants and animals with an eye to quality of life for present and future generations. Some fellows are resource managers while other work with primary producers or at research institutions looking at long-term policies.

Spotlight on Leadership

Maria Fernández-Giménez: Mongolian research leads to country's highest honor
Maria Fernández-Giménez: Research leads to Mongolia's highest honor

Switzer Fellow and Colorado State University Professor Maria Fernández-Giménez has received the Order of the Polar Star from the government of Mongolia, the highest civilian honor the country presents to foreign nationals. Fernández-Giménez was selected due to her long-standing commitment to researching Mongolia’s extensive rangelands and how natural and human communities are adapting to ecological and economic change.Read more >

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Fellows in the News

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These Trees Tell a Story solves ecological mysteries by reading landscapes
Fellows in the News | May 17, 2023
Jensen advocates for protection of CA biodiversity jewel Molok Luyuk
Fellows in the News | Apr 17, 2023
Milakovsky presents on the impacts of Russia’s war on Ukraine’s forests

Related Grants

Developing critical design tools and training in waterway restoration
Year: 2021
Region: California
As climate change exacerbates the urban heat island and disrupts watershed functions, geomorphically functioning urban streams and green spaces will become increasingly important features of livable cities. Many parts of California have already lost an estimated 90% of historical stream and wetland...Read more >
Southern California Conservation Analyst: Year Two
Year: 2019
Region: California
California Native Plant Society (CNPS) hired Nick Jensen as its first Southern California Conservation Analyst in 2017, with support from a Switzer Leadership Grant. This second year of funding will provide continued support as CNPS integrates Nick’s position into the long-term plans for the...Read more >
Sustainable Aquaculture Communities
Year: 2018
Region: New England
Aquaculture is experiencing extremely fast growth in Maine, as it is in other parts of the country and around the world. Fishing is a critical part of Maine's economy; aquaculture is becoming more and more prevalent as commercial fishermen seek to diversify their income and new entrepreneurs enter...Read more >

Featured Fellows

Thomas Morrison
Thomas Morrison
2009 Fellow
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
University of Glasgow
Nicole Heller
Nicole Heller
2004 Fellow
Curator of Anthropocene Studies
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
J. Morgan Grove
Morgan Grove
1993 Fellow
Section Chief
USDA Forest Service

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