Conservation Science

Fellow Story

Rogers' work on protecting tropical rainforests featured on Voice America

Fellow Amy Rogers' work on an innovative initiative that protects tropical rainforests through the direct trade of strategic understory crops was featured on Voice America. Listen to the episode
October 10, 2018
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Olivia Walton

2018 Fellow
Olivia Walton is currently the Education Coordinator for a small nonprofit in the Virgin Islands called the St. Croix Environmental Association. Being from St. Croix, Olivia is passionate about giving back to her community with the...
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Kathryn (Katey) Lesneski

2018 Fellow
Originally from Massachusetts, Katey graduated from Brown University in 2012 with a BS in Geo-Biology. She always had a passion for conducting science that produces tangible outcomes to support knowledge that communities have of the state...
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Philip Womble

2018 Fellow
Philip Womble is an attorney and a hydrologist specializing in water policy and water markets. He is a legal/postdoctoral fellow with the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Philip received his Ph.D. in Environment...
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Matthew Williamson

2018 Fellow
Matt is a conservation scientist interested in understanding how the interactions between people, their environment, and the institutions that govern them inspire (or inhibit) conservation action and how that impacts their effectiveness.
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Erik Grijalva

2018 Fellow
Erik Grijalva completed his PhD in restoration ecology at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), where his research revolved around understanding restoration and conservation approaches within highly modified ecosystems. His...
Network Innovation Grant Grant

Developing a community engagement strategy for solutions to avian malaria

Avian malaria, spread by mosquitoes, is having a rapid and profound effect on Hawaii's forest bird populations, with some at risk of extinction. Three Switzer Fellows will lead the development of a strategy to engage local Hawaiian...
May 31, 2018
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Delborne quoted in New York Times on risks of 'gene drive' field trials

In 2013, scientists discovered a new way to precisely edit genes — technology called Crispr that raised all sorts of enticing possibilities. Scientists wondered if it might be used to fix hereditary diseases, for example, or to develop new crops. One of the more intriguing ideas came from Kevin M. Esvelt and his colleagues at Harvard University: Crispr, they suggested, could be used to save endangered wildlife from extinction by implanting a fertility-reducing gene in invasive animals — a so-called gene drive.
January 23, 2018
Leadership Grant Grant

Southern California Conservation Analyst

California Native Plant Society created a new position of Southern California Conservation Analyst for Nick Jensen, after his graduation with his PhD in Botany from Claremont Graduate University in 2018. Nick leads this statewide...
December 20, 2017
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Rubega's work on hummingbird drinking featured in The Atlantic

When Margaret Rubega first read about how hummingbirds drink, she thought to herself: That can’t possibly be right.
December 5, 2017