Conservation Science

Leadership Grant Grant

Carnivore Habitat Connectivity in the Green Mountains and Adirondacks

To hire Robert Long to coordinate a one-year research project on the habitat needs and potential connectivity of habitat blocks for large carnivores between the Green Mountains in Vermont and the Adirondacks in New York, to inform...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Science Director for the Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory, Year 2

To provide funds for a second year for Brett Thelen's position as Science Director for the Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory (AVEO), allowing her to expand and strengthen the work she has done to date in her first year on the job in...
March 29, 2010
Fellow

Elizabeth Farnsworth

1990 Fellow
Elizabeth Farnsworth was a Senior Research Ecologist with the New England Wild Flower Society (NEWFS), and a biologist, educator, and scientific illustrator. She was also senior editor of the botanical journal, Rhodora. She was principal...
Fellow

Alicia Daniel

1988 Fellow
Walking through the forest without knowing how to read the landscape is like walking through a library without knowing how to read a book. Places record their histories in rock formations and soil horizons, in tree rings and cut stumps, in...
Fellow

Michelle Stevens

1993 Fellow
Michelle is currently working as an assistant professor in the Environmental Studies Department at California State University of Sacramento. She will continue her work in wetland riparian restoration and ethnoecology. Michelle completed...
Fellow

Maria Fernandez-Gimenez

1991 Fellow
Maria is Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Management at Colorado State University and leader of the Rangeland Social-Ecological Systems Lab group. The RSES lab does ecological and social science research and engagement related to impacts...
Fellow

Mike Gonella

1992 Fellow
Mike is currently serving as Chair of the Environmental Horticulture Department at Santa Barbara City College, where sustainable horticulture, ecological restoration and ethnobotany are emphasized. Mike recently received his PhD in...
Fellow

Peter Vickery

1990 Fellow
Peter D. Vickery was president of a new non-profit organization, the Center for Ecological Research. He was on the graduate faculty at the University of Maine, Orono and the Department of Natural Resources Conservation at the University of...
Fellow

Jefferson Hall

1991 Fellow
Jefferson Hall is the Director of the Program for Applied Ecology in the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). In this capacity he is leading the effort to develop an Applied Ecology...
Fellow

Darold Batzer

1989 Fellow
Daryl is an associate professor of entomology at the University of Georgia, and studies the ecology and environmental biology of wetland invertebrates. Daryl and his students work extensively with the trophic ecology of invertebrates, and...