Land Use & Open Space Conservation

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GreenTRIP: Great Access, Deep Affordability with Switzer Fellow Stuart Cohen (Switzer Foundation Webinar Series)

Walkable, transit-oriented communities are seen as an antidote to unfettered sprawl. But outdated city codes vastly overestimate how much people drive and require excessive parking in these transit areas, especially for low-income families...
January 12, 2012
Fellow

Tavis Forrester

2011 Fellow
Dr. Tavis Forrester is a wildlife research biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and a research fellow at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI). Dr. Forrester leads research on the ecology of cougars...
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Tara Cornelisse

2011 Fellow
Tara is an Invertebrate Zoologist with NatureServe. She received her PhD from UC Santa Cruz and has worked in natural resources management, insect conservation, and education.
Fellow

Julia Ledewitz

2011 Fellow
Julia Rogers is a Senior Sustainability Designer with Vanderweil Engineers. She previously worked for DTZ, a global facilities management corporation, as the program manager for the Energy and Sustainability team. She was also the...
Fellow

Christian Casillas

2011 Fellow
My work focuses on helping to build learning and energy systems that support people to live more sustainably. I have been involved in various aspects of design, testing, and implementation of renewable energy systems in the United States...
Leadership Grant Grant

Reducing the Impacts of Rural Sprawl on Wildlife Habitat, Year 1

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) will hire Sarah Reed as Project Leader for the Western Private Lands and Connectivity Conservation Project, building on work Sarah has already done with WCS through her David H. Smith Conservation...
May 27, 2011
Leadership Grant Grant

Evaluating Potential of Conservation Lands in Rural Downeast Maine, Year 2

This grant provides a second year of funding for Misha Mytar’s position as Senior Planner in Maine’s Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands. Misha’s work focuses on enhancing the economic and community development potential...
June 18, 2010
Fellow

Noah Charney

2010 Fellow
Dr. Charney uses the tools of spatial ecology to guide conservation of sensitive species and ecosystems in the face of global change and expanding human populations. Recent projects include: modeling impacts of climate change on Galapagos...
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Steve Blackmer

2010 Fellow
Steve Blackmer is founder and executive director of Kairos Earth, a non-profit organization based in Canterbury, NH, that seeks to renew a widespread understanding of the natural world as a bearer of the sacred and to restore this awareness...
Leadership Grant Grant

Associate Regional Scientist for Massachusetts Audubon Society

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...
March 29, 2010