Conservation Science

Fellow

Leslie (Leke) Hutchins

2022 Fellow
Leke (Kānaka ʻŌiwi, Native Hawaiian) studies Indigenous food and data sovereignty and conservation in Hawaiʻi. He hopes to create pathways for more Kānaka ʻŌiwi farmers to access land, expand Indigenous agroecosystems, and support insect biodiversity.
Fellow Story

Reed and Zeller featured in the Conversation on making room for wildlife

Studies by fellows Kathy Zeller and Sarah Reed find that wildlife is just not that into you, and that your presence has a big impact.
June 23, 2022
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Ka Ki (Lily) Law

2022 Fellow
Originally fascinated by a composting program as a kid in Hong Kong, Lily is passionate about environmental sciences and ecology. She studies soil microbial ecology on urban grasslands and aims to bring ecosystem restorations closer to immigrant and low-income communities.
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Melinda Adams

2022 Fellow
Melinda (N’dee, San Carlos Apache) examines plant and soil biochemical responses to cultural burns using Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Tribal partners. Her research intersects environmental policy and science, and is rooted in Native ways of knowing and being.
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Nicholas Dorian

2022 Fellow
Nick is an ecologist, educator, and naturalist studying how native bees cope with the impacts of climate change in order to develop strategies for bee conservation. His public education efforts reconnect people with urban nature and teach them to support pollinators in their own yards.
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Natalia Aristizábal

2022 Fellow
Witnessing deforestation firsthand in Colombia motivated Natalia to become a conservation scientist. She now studies the connections between biodiversity, global change, and agriculture. Specifically, how climate and land-use change affect nature’s contributions to coffee production.
Fellow Story

Stewart study finds that larger North Atlantic right whale females have more calves

Northern Atlantic right whale length-at-age is decreasing due to the impacts of sub-lethal entanglements, and the body condition of the population is poorer than closely related southern right whales.
June 22, 2022
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Christine Wilkinson selected as 2022 Schmidt Science Fellow

Schmidt Science Fellows envisions a world where interdisciplinary science can flourish and accelerate discoveries that tackle major challenges and have a positive impact. Christine Wilkinson plans to use the opportunity to pivot from ecology to computer science.
June 21, 2022
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Johnson co-authors study finding high concentrations of DDT-related chemicals in California condors

Jade Johnson is part of a research team that has found new and mysterious DDT chemicals accumulating in coastal California condors.
June 6, 2022
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Parker speaks on traditional ecological knowledge at fisheries conference

Salmon, sturgeon, lamprey and other fish have been keystone cultural species for Native American tribes of the Klamath River Basin for thousands of years. Keith's work merges the paradigms of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and western ecological knowledge to manage these species.
June 1, 2022