Natural Resource Management

Fellow

Christina De Jesús Villanueva

2020 Fellow
Christina is a conservation scientist passionate about applying research in natural resource management. For the past decade her work has focused on the Invasive Green Iguana, which Christina used as a model to learn multiple approaches to...
Fellow

Raven Graf

2020 Fellow
Previously, Raven served Senator Sheldon Whitehouse as a legislative correspondent for climate and energy. They earned their Masters of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. They are interested in the challenges and...
Fellow

Alejandro Artiga-Purcell

2020 Fellow
James Alejandro Artiga-Purcell is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Communication, in the Communication Studies Department at San Jose State University. He received his Ph.D. in the Environmental Studies department at UC Santa Cruz...
Fellow Story

Keith Parker: Researching bizarre prehistoric fish to preserve Yurok culture

For the Yurok tribe, fishing isn’t a recreational weekend activity to be paired with a cold beer. It’s a way of subsistence, a way of life. Fellow Keith Parker’s groundbreaking biology research regarding a new subspecies of Pacific lamprey, recently published in the science journal Molecular Ecology, may be the key to saving his tribe’s way of life.
September 30, 2019
Fellow Story

Rubin publishes guide for mobilizing volunteer groups in large-scale tree-planting and restoration work

Since 2004, Northwest Watershed Institute has been working closely with local schools to plant 5,000 trees annually in an event known as “The Plant-A-Thon.” Together, more than 1,000 people have planted 156,000 trees and have raised $200,000+ for local schools.
September 30, 2019
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Tamara Marcus

2019 Fellow
Tamara is a graduate student in the Natural Resources and Earth System Sciences Ph.D. program at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include using bioinformatic techniques to understand the impact of warming on microbial...
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Melissa Cronin

2019 Fellow
Melissa Cronin is a Smith Conservation Research Fellow and postdoctoral researcher hosted by the Coasts and Commons Co-Laboratory at Duke University. She is an interdisciplinary marine conservation scientist and studies the impacts of industrial fishing on ecosystems, threatened species, and human communities. She is co-founder of the conservation organization Mobula Conservation (www.mobulaconservation.org) and co-founder and CEO of FieldFutures (www.fieldfutures.org).
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Christine Wilkinson

2019 Fellow
Christine Wilkinson is a conservation scientist and science communicator at University of California, Santa Cruz and the California Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include multidisciplinary mapping, human-wildlife conflict...
Fellow

Brittani Orona

2019 Fellow
Brittani R. Orona is an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Human Rights at UC Davis in Spring 2022. She is currently an Assistant Professor of American...
Leadership Grant Grant

Southern California Conservation Analyst: Year Two

California Native Plant Society (CNPS) hired Nick Jensen as its first Southern California Conservation Analyst in 2017, with support from a Switzer Leadership Grant. This second year of funding will provide continued support as CNPS...
May 22, 2019