Land Use & Open Space Conservation

Leadership Grant Grant

Evaluating Potential of Conservation Lands in Rural Downeast Maine, Year 2

This grant provides a second year of funding for Misha Mytar’s position as Senior Planner in Maine’s Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands. Misha’s work focuses on enhancing the economic and community development potential...
June 18, 2010
Fellow

Kristy Deiner

2010 Fellow
Kristy Deiner is fascinated and humbled by biodiversity and has spent hours, likely years, immersed in lakes and rivers from mountain tops to tropical islands unwinding the tangled banks of life to understand their inter-workings and connections. Discovery, exploration and learning are her key motivators. She has worked across a spectrum of institutions from museums to universities to non-profits and for profits across the US and Europe as a scientist, professor founder and CEO, but always a student.
Fellow

Noah Charney

2010 Fellow
Dr. Charney uses the tools of spatial ecology to guide conservation of sensitive species and ecosystems in the face of global change and expanding human populations. Recent projects include: modeling impacts of climate change on Galapagos...
Fellow

Steve Blackmer

2010 Fellow
Steve Blackmer is founder and executive director of Kairos Earth, a non-profit organization based in Canterbury, NH, that seeks to renew a widespread understanding of the natural world as a bearer of the sacred and to restore this awareness...
Leadership Grant Grant

Science Fellow, EcoTrends Project

To hire Rob Baldwin on a one-year contractual basis to provide build-out analysis and future trends modelling for the Northern Forest region. The purpose of this is to inform landscape-scale conservation initiatives and forest conservation...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Associate Regional Scientist for Massachusetts Audubon Society

Hillary Young was hired as the first Associate Regional Scientist for the southeastern Massachusetts region. Her duties will include: (1) conducting a long-term ecological inventory of Audubon's protected lands in the region; (2) advising...
March 29, 2010
Fellow

Glynnis Collins

1994 Fellow
Glynnis is the Executive Director of Prairie Rivers Network (www.prairierivers.org), Illinois only statewide river conservation organization and the Illinois affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation. Our mission is to protect the...
Fellow

Mike Gonella

1992 Fellow
Mike is currently serving as Chair of the Environmental Horticulture Department at Santa Barbara City College, where sustainable horticulture, ecological restoration and ethnobotany are emphasized. Mike recently received his PhD in...
Fellow

Roger Geller

1991 Fellow
Roger is working for the City of Portland's bicycle program where he is managing a $350,000 Federal Highway Administration grant. With this grant, he is developing a model public/private partnership program to increase the rate of bicycle...
Fellow

Bradford Meiklejohn

1993 Fellow
Brad directs the Alaska office of The Conservation Fund, focusing on land acquisition and habitat protection. In 1995 and 1996, The Conservation Fund was instrumental in the addition of 300,000 acres of brown bear habitat to the Kodiak...