The Mitigation Strategies project is the central focus of this new organization’s work. The project will address the issue of fisheries bycatch and related mortality in seabird and sea turtle species. Through research, demonstration...
To hire Rob Baldwin on a one-year contractual basis to provide build-out analysis and future trends modelling for the Northern Forest region. The purpose of this is to inform landscape-scale conservation initiatives and forest conservation...
To hire Brett Thelen as the organization’s first Science Director. Ashuelot Valley Environmental Observatory (AVEO) links volunteers with scientists to gather ecological data aimed at improving conservation decision-making and planning in...
Hillary Young was hired as the first Associate Regional Scientist for the southeastern Massachusetts region. Her duties will include: (1) conducting a long-term ecological inventory of Audubon's protected lands in the region; (2) advising...
Rebecca Shaw is the Director of Conservation Science for The Nature Conservancy in San Francisco and Visiting Scientist at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology on Stanford University’s campus. As Director of Conservation...
I specialize in supporting organizations focused on designing and scaling nature-based solutions that protect and enhance terrestrial and marine environments—working hand-in-hand with communities at the front lines of global change.
Dr. Paul da Silva is an ecologist, entomologist and educator living and working in Marin County, California. At the time of becoming a Switzer fellow, he was researching integrated pest management (IPM) and biological control of insect...
Dr. Stuart Siegel focuses on the intersections of climate change, natural resources resiliency, ecosystem restoration, management-relevant science, and regional planning. He has been at the forefront of ecosystem restoration before it...
Morgan Grove is a social scientist and Team Leader for the USDA Forest Service's Baltimore Urban Field Station. Morgan has worked in Baltimore since 1989, with the Forest Service since 1996, and has been a Co-Principal Investigator in the...
Dr. Healy Hamilton is Chief Scientist at the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), a forest sustainability organization operating in the U.S. and Canada. She is a biodiversity scientist and global change biologist with graduate degrees...
