Conservation Science

Fellow

Elena Traister

2008 Fellow
Elena is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science in the Environmental Studies Department at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Her research focuses on stream water quality and restoration. She is currently collaborating with...
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Jennifer Bowen

1999 Fellow
Jennifer completed her PhD in Biology at Boston University on Jan. 2005, with an emphasis on marine ecology. After completing her PhD she received an NSF postdoctoral fellowship in Microbial Biology in which she focused on understanding how...
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Kristen Puryear

2003 Fellow
Kristen Puryear graduated with her masters degree from UVM in 2004, and is currently working for Maine's Department of Conservation as a Community Ecologist. Her work within the Maine Natural Areas Program focuses on inventorying and...
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Jennifer O'Leary

2006 Fellow
I am currently with the Wildlife Conservation Society and leading a program across three nations in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean to support communities in fisheries management and development of locally managed marine areas and...
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Lara Hansen

1995 Fellow
Dr. Lara Hansen is the Chief Scientist and Executive Director of EcoAdapt, an organization created to help develop the field of climate change adaptation by creating a network to develop the science of adaptation, build capacity to expand...
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Dana Bauer

2000 Fellow
Dana Bauer is an interdisciplinary researcher with particular interests in conservation and sustainability. She applies economic and ecological theory towards the assessment of ecosystem services and the analysis of policies and programs...
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Susannah McCandless

2004 Fellow
Susannah McCandless received her doctorate in human-environment geography and political ecology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2010, and works with the non-profit Global Diversity Foundation (www.global-diversity.org)...
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Andrew Kulmatiski

2001 Fellow
Andrew Kulmatiski's Switzer supported dissertation research compared the relationship between native plants and their soils to the relationship between exotic plants and their soils. Andrew found that exotic plants created soils that...
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Mark Tompkins

2004 Fellow
Mark Tompkins earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley, where he investigated the role of floodplains in river restoration efforts. Floodplains provide important aquatic and...
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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...