Conservation Science

Leadership Grant Grant

Evaluating Potential of Conservation Lands in Rural Downeast Maine, Year 2

This grant provides a second year of funding for Misha Mytar’s position as Senior Planner in Maine’s Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands. Misha’s work focuses on enhancing the economic and community development potential...
June 18, 2010
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Melissa Garren

2010 Fellow
Holding a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, with a completed postdoctoral fellowship in Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, and >20 years of experience underwater as a PADI certified scuba Divemaster...
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Karrigan Bork

2010 Fellow
Karrigan Bork completed a law degree at Stanford Law School in Spring 2009 and an Ecology PhD in the Genomic Variation Laboratory at UC Davis in 2011. Originally from Lawrence, Kansas, he graduated from the University of Kansas in 2002 and...
Fellow Story

California Invasive Plant Council

When is a pretty plant a problem? When it displaces native vegetation and disrupts the food chain. Doug Johnson, Executive Director of the California Invasive Plant Council, is a Switzer Fellow working with private and government agencies to identify invading plants, arrest their spread and educate the public to healthy alternatives.
June 17, 2010
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Kristy Deiner

2010 Fellow
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.
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Naomi Fraga

2010 Fellow
Naomi is Director of Conservation Programs at the California Botanic Garden where she provides leadership to the diverse conservation activities at the Garden and works with Federal, State, local agencies, and conservation partners to...
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Noah Charney

2010 Fellow
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...
Fellow Story

PetWatch: What's the best pet for you and the planet?

Each year the U.S. pet industry imports millions of animals, often with avoidable, negative consequences for owners, pets and natural habitats. Switzer Fellow Myra Finkelstein discusses PetWatch, a new consumer resource for informed ownership.
May 26, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Forest Conservation Planning in the Ecuadorian Choco Forest, Year 2

To continue Amy’s position as a Research Fellow with the Pinchot Institute, focusing on reforestation ecology and community forest-based economic development in Esmeraldas Province in Ecuador. Amy received a Leadership Grant last year to...
March 31, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Illegal Logging Worldwide, Year 2

To provide continued support for Andrea Johnson in her new role as Director of Forest Campaigns, having primary responsibility for the overall direction and management of the the Environmental Investigation Agency's worldwide Forest...
March 31, 2010