Environmental Education

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Walter Poleman

1994 Fellow
Walter left nine years of work as an environmental educator to study in the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont. For his Master's project, he evaluated forest inventory techniques as a part of a sustainable forest...
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Richard Haley

1993 Fellow
Richard was director of the Goodwin Conservation Center, a nature education facility run by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. His professional interests included improving the quality of environmental and nature...
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Ellen Baker

1988 Fellow
Ellen's MS research focused on the optimization of heavy metal removal from wastewater by the fungus of the genus Penicillium. Currently, she is homeschooling her youngest daughter and running a nursery which specializes in unusual and...
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Trish Mace

1991 Fellow
Trish has a BA in Biology, a MA in International Studies focusing on natural resources policy, and additional studies at UC Berkeley on marine resources conservation and management. She is currently the Director of the University of Oregon...
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Paul da Silva

1990 Fellow
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...
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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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Oliver Barton

1993 Fellow
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...
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Mark Schlautman

1988 Fellow
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...
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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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Deborah Jensen

1990 Fellow
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...