Jessica is a landscape architect who has advocated for and proposed restoration projects for urban streams and watersheds in the nonprofit, governmental, and consulting sectors in Southern California. She has combined historical...
Brenda Zollitsch, PhD works as a policy analyst for The Association for State Wetland Managers, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to integrate sound science into wetland and stream policy. Her work at ASWM allows her to...
Jennifer completed her PhD in Biology at Boston University on Jan. 2005, with an emphasis on marine ecology. After completing her PhD she received an NSF postdoctoral fellowship in Microbial Biology in which she focused on understanding how...
Michael is broadly interested in the impacts of climate variability and change on society. After receiving his BS in physics from UCSD, he served as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania. Michael managed several projects dealing...
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...
Todd Gartner is a Senior Associate for the World Resources Institute’s Food, Forests & Water Program. He runs WRI's Natural Infrastructure for Water project working with governments and businesses to invest in conserving and restoring...
Mark Tompkins earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley, where he investigated the role of floodplains in river restoration efforts. Floodplains provide important aquatic and...
Chuck Striplen completed his Masters and PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. He attended archeological field school at California State University – Chico, and received a dual B.A...
I left the U.S. EPA almost two years ago to take a position with SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation) in Product Stewardship. My goal in moving to SABIC was to leverage my experience and education with a position in the private sector...
Laura is a program officer in the Climate and Clean Energy Program of the Heising-Simons Foundation, where she leads the Foundation's efforts to support grantees working to reduce emissions from the utility sectors. From 2008-2019, Laura...