Conservation Science

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Bradford Meiklejohn

1993 Fellow
Brad directs the Alaska office of The Conservation Fund, focusing on land acquisition and habitat protection. In 1995 and 1996, The Conservation Fund was instrumental in the addition of 300,000 acres of brown bear habitat to the Kodiak...
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Aram Calhoun

1991 Fellow
Aram completed her Dissertation in 1996 looking at the role of methanotrophic bacteria on various marsh plants in mitigating methane emission from freshwater marshes. She has worked professionally as an environmental educator and a wetland...
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Jim Catlin

1992 Fellow
Jim has combined 15 years of computer and civil engineering experience with his long term love for conservation in a new career in natural resource science. In 1996, he completed his PhD program which analyzed the influence geographic...
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Peter Schuyler

1990 Fellow
Peter is currently taking a break from full time work to spend time with his family. He is self-employed as a Natural Lands Management Consultant. He remains active in the conservation world by serving on the US Fish & Wildlife Recovery...
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Frank Lowenstein

1991 Fellow
Founding Partner at Alluvial Network, providing climate adaptation services to frontline communities. Also serve as Strategic Partnership Specialist for 4ocean-- improving the ocean one million pieces of trash at a time. My work history...
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John J Berger

1988 Fellow
John J. Berger is an energy and environmental policy specialist and a senior research fellow at the Pacific Institute. His 11 books include Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth and Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis, which won the 2015 International Book Award for Science. His journalistic work has appeared in Scientific American, The Nation, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.
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Rachel O'Malley

1993 Fellow
O'Malley's dissertation work took her to Asia, Africa, Latin America and finally the upper Sacramento Valley of California--where she used theory from community ecology to help assess impacts of rice management practices on wetland insects...
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Rebecca Shaw

1992 Fellow
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...
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Lisa Micheli

1993 Fellow
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.
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Paul da Silva

1990 Fellow
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...