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...
A 10th-generation Virginian, Bruce is a forest ecologist, science educator, and conservationist who lives in the world-renowned Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He was elected a National Fellow of The Explorers Club in 1998, a Switzer...
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...
Jessica Davenport supports the creation of resilient landscapes for people and nature in the San Francisco Bay Area as Deputy Program Manager for both the California State Coastal Conservancy’s Bay Area Program and the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority.
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...
Dave Wiley is the Research Coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency’s (NOAA) Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and has been investigating the marine environment for over 25 years. He received his PhD in...
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...
As Stewardship Director for Northwest Watershed Institute (NWI), Jude focuses her work on the Tarboo Creek Watershed Restoration Program, an effort to restore and protect native salmon and wildlife habitat to a 7,000 acre rural watershed on...
Heather works in southeast Oregon for the Nature Conservancy coordinating a broad cooperative effort to conserve and manage sage steppe. She previously worked for the Forest Service in Bishop, CA as a range manager. She has a Master’s...
Jessica Levine is the Conserving Land and Water Strategy Lead for The Nature Conservancy in New England and the Coordinator of the Staying Connected Initiative, a binational landscape connectivity partnership. She serves on the Executive...
