Land Use & Open Space Conservation

Ariane de Bremond is Executive Director of the Global Land Programme (www.glp.earth), and Research Associate Professor in Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. Motivated by her time as a development practitioner...

Karen Gaffney oversees the Conservation Planning program at the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation & Open Space District. Previously, she was a CEO of West Coast Watershed - a small dynamic partnership focused on watershed planning and...

Mary worked as a preservation planner for the San Francisco Planning Department for seven years. Before that she earned a Master’s degree in Geography at San Francisco State University. Her research focused on strategies to increase the...

Susannah McCandless received her doctorate in human-environment geography and political ecology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2010, and works with the non-profit Global Diversity Foundation (www.global-diversity.org)...

Michael Lozano joined The Community Builders, Inc. (TCB) in 2010 as a Development Project Manager in the Northeast Region. He manages all aspects of TCB’s real estate development projects from property scouting and acquisition through...

Dana Bauer is an interdisciplinary researcher with particular interests in conservation and sustainability. She applies economic and ecological theory towards the assessment of ecosystem services and the analysis of policies and programs...

Dr. Amber Pairis is the Founder and Lead Advisor of the Climate Science Alliance and Associate Research Faculty with the Western Regional Climate Center at the Desert Research Institute. The Climate Science Alliance was created in 2015 out...

I am a wildlife ecologist with broad interests in conservation, population biology and animal behaviour. I graduated in Biology from Duke University (2002), and completed a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth College (2011). I have conducted research in East Africa for 20+ years.

Melissa graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1991 with an honors BA in Integrated Ecology and graduated from UC Davis in 2000 with a Ph.D. in Ecology. For the 28 years, she served as the Executive Director and President of The Cultural...