Peter Vorster has 40 years of experience as a hydrogeographer, much of it focused on California's water resources and the landmark water conflicts in the Eastern Sierra (Mono Lake and the Owens Valley) and the San Francisco Bay-Delta...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
