UC Davis

Fellow

Jun Bando

2002 Fellow
Ecologist and nonprofit leader with experience in public policy, foreign affairs, and higher education.
Fellow

Martha Hoopes

1996 Fellow
Martha has worked in conservation policy and research. She designed self-sufficient waste management programs for wildlife reserves in Argentina through the Fundacion Vida Silvestre and worked for the US National Park Service (NPS)...
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Brent Sewall

2005 Fellow
Dr. Brent Sewall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Temple University. His research focuses on understanding critical and emerging threats to biodiversity and developing effective strategies for conservation. He is...
Fellow

Brenda Grewell

1999 Fellow
Brenda Grewell is a research ecologist with USDA-Agricultural Research Service’s Exotic and Invasive Weeds Research group, with a faculty affiliation in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis. As a...
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Andrea Thode

2002 Fellow
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...
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Melissa Nelson

1996 Fellow
Melissa graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1991 with an honors BA in Integrated Ecology and graduated from UC Davis in 2000 with a Ph.D. in Ecology. For the 28 years, she served as the Executive Director and President of The Cultural...
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Ryan Sensenig

2006 Fellow
Ryan’s broad interests include conservation, participatory research, and science education. Prior to attending the University of California, Davis, where he is pursuing a PhD in Ecology, he taught Ecology and Earth Science at the high...