Rebecca Shaw is the Director of Conservation Science for The Nature Conservancy in San Francisco and Visiting Scientist at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology on Stanford University’s campus. As Director of Conservation...
I specialize in supporting organizations focused on designing and scaling nature-based solutions that protect and enhance terrestrial and marine environments—working hand-in-hand with communities at the front lines of global change.
Dr. Paul da Silva is an ecologist, entomologist and educator living and working in Marin County, California. At the time of becoming a Switzer fellow, he was researching integrated pest management (IPM) and biological control of insect...
Dr. Stuart Siegel focuses on the intersections of climate change, natural resources resiliency, ecosystem restoration, management-relevant science, and regional planning. He has been at the forefront of ecosystem restoration before it...
Morgan Grove is a social scientist and Team Leader for the USDA Forest Service's Baltimore Urban Field Station. Morgan has worked in Baltimore since 1989, with the Forest Service since 1996, and has been a Co-Principal Investigator in the...
Dr. Healy Hamilton is Chief Scientist at the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), a forest sustainability organization operating in the U.S. and Canada. She is a biodiversity scientist and global change biologist with graduate degrees...
Brian is currently an Professor of Marine Ecology at the University of Maine at Machias where he teaches marine ecology, marine biology, biostatistics, shellfish aquaculture, and fisheries management. His applied research programs focus on...
After three years working in Science and Stewardship with the Vermont chapter of the Nature Conservancy, she left environmental work to pursue her other love, music. Together with her husband, Kathleen started a small company called Vermont...
Patrick McCarthy is the Water Policy Officer at the Thornburg Foundation. Trained as a conservation ecologist, he has worked for the last thirty years at the intersection of ecological science, water governance, and community-based...
Jeff is Director of Conservation Science at Mass Audubon, overseeing sanctuary-based research, habitat management, and bird conservation programs. Jeff's primary interests lie in applying the principles of landscape ecology to wildlife...
