Natural Resource Management

Jim has combined 15 years of computer and civil engineering experience with his long term love for conservation in a new career in natural resource science. In 1996, he completed his PhD program which analyzed the influence geographic...

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...

Dr. Stuart Siegel focuses on the intersections of climate change, natural resources resiliency, ecosystem restoration, management-relevant science, and regional planning. He has been at the forefront of ecosystem restoration before it...

Chris is a senior research scientist in the Pelagic Fisheries and Ecosystem Unit with CSIRO Marine Research, Australia’s governmental research agency. Much of his research focuses on the dynamics of declining species, and particularly in...

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...

I have been a Switzer Fellow since 1992, and am very grateful to have received Environmental Leadership awards during 2000-2003 to support my work in conservation science for the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) Conservation Initiative. For over...

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...

Bruce had an educational background ranging from economics to ecological restoration. Pursuing a career in environmental stewardship, his primary focus was developing local capacity for community based stewardship. Through this endeavor he...

John J. Berger is an energy and environmental policy specialist and a senior research fellow at the Pacific Institute. His 11 books include Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth and Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis, which won the 2015 International Book Award for Science. His journalistic work has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.