Land Use & Open Space Conservation

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Sarah Charron

1992 Fellow
Sarah (Seckinger) Charron is an environmental engineer with 10 years of experience working principally for municipalities on water and wastewater treatment improvement programs. She is a licensed professional environmental engineer in...
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Joanne Michaud

1993 Fellow
For her graduate work at the University of Rhode Island, Joanne studied the effects of habitat size and isolation of southern Rhode Island peatlands on occupancy by the bog copper butterfly (Lycaena epixanthe). Her work with the Rhode...
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Alicia Daniel

1988 Fellow
Walking through the forest without knowing how to read the landscape is like walking through a library without knowing how to read a book. Places record their histories in rock formations and soil horizons, in tree rings and cut stumps, in...
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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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John Sanderson

1992 Fellow
John Sanderson is the Director of Colorado State University’s Center for Collaborative Conservation. At the Center, John and his staff work to build the capacity of organizations, communities, and future leaders to achieve conservation...
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Elizabeth Farnsworth

1990 Fellow
Elizabeth Farnsworth was a Senior Research Ecologist with the New England Wild Flower Society (NEWFS), and a biologist, educator, and scientific illustrator. She was also senior editor of the botanical journal, Rhodora. She was principal...
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Thomas E. Gill

1991 Fellow
Tom Gill is a professor of earth, environmental and resource sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is an expert on dust storms, atmospheric particulate matter, and their effects on people and the environment.
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Lisa Micheli

1993 Fellow
I specialize in supporting organizations focused on designing and scaling nature-based solutions that protect and enhance terrestrial and marine environments—working hand-in-hand with communities at the front lines of global change.
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Frank Lowenstein

1991 Fellow
Founding Partner at Alluvial Network, providing climate adaptation services to frontline communities. Also serve as Strategic Partnership Specialist for 4ocean-- improving the ocean one million pieces of trash at a time. My work history...
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Nancy Steele

1993 Fellow
Dr. Nancy Steele focuses her work on the protection and conservation of land and water, striving always to have a direct positive impact on nature and humanity. She is a professional executive manager who has founded and led nonprofits and served on boards of directors. Endlessly curious, she applies a scientists mind to answering questions that result in turning data into actionable knowledge resulting in good policies and practices.