Environmental Education

Fellow

Christy Merrick

1999 Fellow
Christy has worked in environmental education for over twenty years, working with international nonprofits, government agencies, private companies, and small nonprofits to develop education and communication programs and products. She is...
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Brian Johnson

2008 Fellow
Brian Johnson is an environmental education and program evaluation specialist with more than 20 years of experience in the field. He is the co-founder of Inform Evaluation & Research, where he specializes in the evaluation of learning at...
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Brett Amy Thelen

2004 Fellow
Brett Amy Thelen has been directing place-based, conservation-focused community science projects for more than 20 years, with dual emphasis on creating a valuable learning experience for volunteers and producing reliable, reproducible...
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Nicole Ardoin

2002 Fellow
Nicole Ardoin holds a joint appointment with the Graduate School of Education and the Woods Institute for the Environment. Professor Ardoin's research focuses on motivations for environmental behavior, with an emphasis on the links among...
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Jenny Tollefson

2000 Fellow
Jenny Tollefson lives in Missoula, Montana where she works as Stewardship Director for Five Valleys Land Trust. Jenny has taught environmental education, directed a field science institute in Glacier National Park, served on the state board...
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Kathleen Walker

1995 Fellow
Kathleen is an Assistant Specialist and Assistant Professor in the Entomology Dept. at University of Arizona. She studies the ecology of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito vector of dengue fever, in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico...
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Emily Scott

2007 Fellow
Emily Eliza Scott is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist focused on artistic practices that illuminate-interrogate pressing geopolitical and/or ecological issues, often by blurring with other forms of thinking and making to impactfully...
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Jason Selwitz

2006 Fellow
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer: Philippines, 1998-2000. Co-founder of Palawan Conservation Corps (1999). MS graduate of Cal Poly Pomona in Regenerative Studies with focus on bioenergy from algae used to enhance water quality (2007)...
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Nicole Heller

2004 Fellow
I am a conservation ecologist and science communication professional. My research explores the interactions of anthropogenic global change, ecological communities and human stewardship. I am most interested in critically evaluating...
Network Innovation Grant Grant

PetWatch: A Science-Based Educational Campaign

Switzer Fellows Dr. Kate Smith, Assistant Professor at Brown University and Senior Research Scientist at the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and Dr. Myra Finkelstein, Research Associate at UC Santa Cruz in Microbiology and...
November 17, 2009