Environmental Education

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...

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...

Oliver is the former executive director of the New Haven Ecology Project, an environmental education and community development not-for-profit organization. The Ecology Project engages city residents in restoration of neighborhood and park...

Mark is currently teaching and performing research at Clemson University in the Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences. He also is a faculty member for the graduate program in Environmental Toxicology and holds...

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...

Deborah is currently a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence in the College of the Environment at the University of Washington. For 13 years she served as the President and CEO of the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. She is a past President...

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.

Sara St. Antoine is a children's book author and environmental writer with a longstanding interest in how stories shape--and are shaped by--our relationship to the natural world. Her newest novel, Front Country (Chronicle Books, 2022), is...

Daniel is currently the Executive Director of the Johnson Creek Watershed Council, an organization that restores an urban and agricultural watershed in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area by engaging more than 1,300 volunteers each year...