Karen Gaffney oversees the Conservation Planning program at the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation & Open Space District. Previously, she was a CEO of West Coast Watershed - a small dynamic partnership focused on watershed planning and...
Matt Kolan's work is focused on relationships. As an avid naturalist and tracker, he is inspired by the wisdom of nature and the language of the land. Matt is the director of the University of Vermont's Leadership for Sustainability Masters...
Amy Wilson Morris has led community-based park, trail, and open space planning projects throughout the western United States. She specializes in working with diverse partners to build community consensus and leading a wide range of...
Maile received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Humboldt State University and a Master of Arts in Biology from University of California, Santa Barbara. Professional experience includes work as a naturalist with the National Park...
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...
Susannah McCandless received her doctorate in human-environment geography and political ecology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2010, and works with the non-profit Global Diversity Foundation (www.global-diversity.org)...
Dr. Amber Pairis is the Founder and Lead Advisor of the Climate Science Alliance and Associate Research Faculty with the Western Regional Climate Center at the Desert Research Institute. The Climate Science Alliance was created in 2015 out...
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...
Having worked for more than a decade in environmental policy, program implementation and education, Kate received her Master's degree in Environmental Studies in 1999 with a focus on ecology and conservation biology. She has since taught...
Andi Thode grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was the high desert and mountain landscapes of northern New Mexico that originally interested Andi in the field of fire ecology, which eventually led to her current research on landscape...
