Conservation Science

Fellow

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)...
Fellow

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...
Fellow

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...
Fellow Story

Smithsonian's Reforestation Efforts in Panama

Jefferson Hall, 1991 Fellow and Director of the Applied Ecology Program for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Center for Tropical Forest Science in Panama, discusses the Smithsonian's reforestation efforts in Panama on a Smithsonian video series called 'Meet the Scientist'.
January 28, 2010
Network Innovation Grant Grant

PetWatch: A Science-Based Educational Campaign

Switzer Fellows Dr. Kate Smith, Assistant Professor at Brown University and Senior Research Scientist at the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and Dr. Myra Finkelstein, Research Associate at UC Santa Cruz in Microbiology and...
November 17, 2009
Leadership Grant Grant

Evaluating Potential of Conservation Lands in Rural Downeast Maine, Year 1

To hire Misha Mytar as a full time Senior Planner with a regional focus on Downeast Maine. Misha's work will enhance the community development potential of Maine's Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL) conservation lands in this rural area, and...
November 17, 2009
Leadership Grant Grant

Forest Conservation Planning in the Ecuadorian Choco Forest, Year 1

To hire Amy Rogers as a Pinchot Institute Research Fellow to develop research and conservation plans that will create an ecologically and economically sustainable wildlife corridor connecting the two most significant remaining forest tracts...
November 17, 2009
Fellow

Margaret Rubega

1991 Fellow
Margaret's research integrates experimental approaches to basic scientific questions with the conservation of wild birds. She currently focuses most closely on feeding in birds, with interests in the details of what they eat, why and how...