Conservation Science

Along the shores of Long Island Sound in Connecticut, scientists are seeing decades of environmental improvements show how spring can once again become cacophonous with birds and habitats can rebound from loss. Fellow Leigh Shemitz shares her view.

As the Trump Administration prepares to halve the budget for the National Invasive Species Council, a group of invasive species experts led by Fellow Laura Meyerson has issued a warning about the growing peril of biological invasions and the increasing threat they pose to the economy, environment, public health and national security.

Samantha Alger joins VHB’s Natural Sciences team in the South Burlington, Vermont office as an Environmental Scientist/Pollinator Specialist. She brings an in-depth understanding of applied ecological science, with the bulk of her work focused on improving the health of both managed and wild bees through research, education, and outreach. Samantha received her PhD from the University of Vermont where she was awarded both a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and a Switzer Environmental Fellowship.

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