Natural Resource Management

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Martha Hoopes

1996 Fellow
Martha has worked in conservation policy and research. She designed self-sufficient waste management programs for wildlife reserves in Argentina through the Fundacion Vida Silvestre and worked for the US National Park Service (NPS)...
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Carina Bracer

2003 Fellow
With her background in ecosystem services market mechanisms and many years in international environmental markets, Carina helps craft and foster private funding partnerships and mechanisms that leverage and celebrate the immense value of...
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Brian Milakovsky

2008 Fellow
Brian completed his BS in Forestry at UMaine and his MS in Forestry at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His professional focus is the conservation of biodiversity in managed forests, particularly through the...
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Doug Johnson

1999 Fellow
Doug Johnson has been executive director of the nonprofit California Invasive Plant Council since 2002. He currently serves on California's Invasive Species Advisory Committee (www.iscc.ca.gov) and as an officer with the National...
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Leslie Abramson Eldridge

2008 Fellow
Leslie currently is the Advisory Council Coordinator at the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary in San Francisco. She is the recipient of a Switzer Leadership grant this year, to coordinate a stakeholder process focused on...
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Bonnie Becker

2001 Fellow
Professional larval shellfish tracker | Passionate, authentic educator | Collaborative, curriculum-building administrator My professional life is dedicated to empowering the public, especially those traditionally not included in higher...
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Rob Baldwin

2003 Fellow
Robert is on the faculty at Clemson University in South Carolina. As a doctoral student at the University of Maine (Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2005) working with Fellow and Leadership Grantee Aram Calhoun, he received a fellowship...
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Katrina Schneider

1999 Fellow
Katrina began her work with California water issues in 1994 as a water resources analyst at the Environmental Defense Fund. Following a series of storms in the winter of 1996-1997, Katrina served as the principle coordinator of a new EDF...
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Eunice Blavascunas

2005 Fellow
Eunice is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She completed her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz and has taught at the...
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Michael Stevens

1995 Fellow
Mike has served as Washington State Director for The Nature Conservancy since November 2012. Mike was Co-Founder/Principal of Pioneer Mountain Group (www.pmgadvisors.com) from 2006 to 2012. He and his team designed and implemented land and...