Conservation Science

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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
Jennifer is a marine ecologist who supports fishing communities and marine protected area managers in evidence-based decision making to improve ecosystems and human wellbeing. Her research has spanned kelp forest, seagrass, rocky intertidal, estuary, and coral reef ecosystems.
Fellow, Fellows Advisory Committee

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...
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