Conservation Science

Fellow

Nigel Golden

2019 Fellow
Nigel Golden is a Research Scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. His interests has ranged in focus from Arctic ecology, justice-informed wildlife and environmental conservation, Decolonizing Methodologies, and STEM education...
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Avalon Owens

2019 Fellow
Avalon C.S. Owens is passionate about lights — living lights, especially bioluminescent fireflies, and the artificial light that humans impose on the environment. Avalon is working to better our understanding of how artificial light at...
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Maria Jesus

2019 Fellow
Maria Jesus is a Conservation Botanist at the California Botanic Garden (CalBG) where she works to advance native and rare plant conservation. She recently earned her MS in Botany from CalBG/Claremont Graduate University where she studied...
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Melissa Cronin

2019 Fellow
Melissa is an Assistant Professor in the School for Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She is an interdisciplinary marine conservation scientist, writer, and equity practitioner dedicated to...
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Christine Wilkinson

2019 Fellow
Christine Wilkinson is a conservation scientist and science communicator at University of California, Santa Cruz and the California Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include multidisciplinary mapping, human-wildlife conflict...
Fellow Story

Recovery on the shoreline: the Birds are BACK

Along the shores of Long Island Sound in Connecticut, scientists are seeing decades of environmental improvements show how spring can once again become cacophonous with birds and habitats can rebound from loss. Fellow Leigh Shemitz shares her view.
June 6, 2019
Leadership Grant Grant

Southern California Conservation Analyst: Year Two

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...
May 22, 2019
Fellow Story

Alger joins VHB as Environmental Scientist/Pollinator Specialist

Samantha Alger joins VHB’s Natural Sciences team in the South Burlington, Vermont office as an Environmental Scientist/Pollinator Specialist. She brings an in-depth understanding of applied ecological science, with the bulk of her work focused on improving the health of both managed and wild bees through research, education, and outreach. Samantha received her PhD from the University of Vermont where she was awarded both a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a Switzer Environmental Fellowship.
May 1, 2019
Fellow Story

Gross-Camp finds progress towards equitably managed protected areas still challenging

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May 1, 2019
Fellow Story

The growing peril of biological invasions

As the Trump Administration prepares to halve the budget for the National Invasive Species Council, a group of invasive species experts led by Fellow Laura Meyerson has issued a warning about the growing peril of biological invasions and the increasing threat they pose to the economy, environment, public health and national security.
May 1, 2019