Conservation Science

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Bradford Meiklejohn

1993 Fellow
Brad directs the Alaska office of The Conservation Fund, focusing on land acquisition and habitat protection. In 1995 and 1996, The Conservation Fund was instrumental in the addition of 300,000 acres of brown bear habitat to the Kodiak...
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Aram Calhoun

1991 Fellow
Aram completed her Dissertation in 1996 looking at the role of methanotrophic bacteria on various marsh plants in mitigating methane emission from freshwater marshes. She has worked professionally as an environmental educator and a wetland...
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Jim Catlin

1992 Fellow
Jim has combined 15 years of computer and civil engineering experience with his long term love for conservation in a new career in natural resource science. In 1996, he completed his PhD program which analyzed the influence geographic...
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Peter Schuyler

1990 Fellow
Peter is currently taking a break from full time work to spend time with his family. He is self-employed as a Natural Lands Management Consultant. He remains active in the conservation world by serving on the US Fish & Wildlife Recovery...
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Frank Lowenstein

1991 Fellow
Founding Partner at Alluvial Network, providing climate adaptation services to frontline communities. Also serve as Strategic Partnership Specialist for 4ocean-- improving the ocean one million pieces of trash at a time. My work history...
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John J Berger

1988 Fellow
John J. Berger is an energy and environmental policy specialist and a senior research fellow at the Pacific Institute. His 11 books include Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth and Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis, which won the 2015 International Book Award for Science. His journalistic work has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.
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Rachel O'Malley

1993 Fellow
O'Malley's dissertation work took her to Asia, Africa, Latin America and finally the upper Sacramento Valley of California--where she used theory from community ecology to help assess impacts of rice management practices on wetland insects...
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Brad Keitt

1997 Fellow
Brad received an MS in Marine Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a Switzer Foundation Conservation Fellow. His thesis work focused on the conservation and ecology of the Baja California endemic Black-vented...
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Andrea Thode

2002 Fellow
Andi Thode grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was the high desert and mountain landscapes of northern New Mexico that originally interested Andi in the field of fire ecology, which eventually led to her current research on landscape...
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Bridie McGreavy

2006 Fellow
I study relationships between water and communication and how tides, rivers, and oceans shape diverse collaborations for justice, decolonization, and resilience. I use engaged research methodologies to co-create knowledge about water and communication in the context of coastal shellfishing communities, river restoration and freshwater conservation initiatives, and large-scale science-based collaborations.