Land Use & Open Space Conservation

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Maureen Hart

1992 Fellow
Maureen Hart is the Executive Director of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP), the world's leading professional association of sustainability professionals. ISSP works to make sustainability standard practice...
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Elizabeth Farnsworth

1990 Fellow
Elizabeth Farnsworth was a Senior Research Ecologist with the New England Wild Flower Society (NEWFS), and a biologist, educator, and scientific illustrator. She was also senior editor of the botanical journal, Rhodora. She was principal...
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Diana Elder Anderson

1994 Fellow
Currently, Diana is Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University where she works on Quaternary Death Valley paleoclimates, paleohydrology, and geomorphology. Diana has been funded by the state of Arizona to begin a riparian...
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Mike Gonella

1992 Fellow
Mike is currently serving as Chair of the Environmental Horticulture Department at Santa Barbara City College, where sustainable horticulture, ecological restoration and ethnobotany are emphasized. Mike recently received his PhD in...
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Alicia Daniel

1988 Fellow
Walking through the forest without knowing how to read the landscape is like walking through a library without knowing how to read a book. Places record their histories in rock formations and soil horizons, in tree rings and cut stumps, in...
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Marcy Mahr

1992 Fellow
I have been a Switzer Fellow since 1992, and am very grateful to have received Environmental Leadership awards during 2000-2003 to support my work in conservation science for the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) Conservation Initiative. For over...
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Peggy Sloan

1990 Fellow
Peggy was director of planning and development for the Franklin County Commissioners, where she provided technical assistance to 26 townships in western Massachusetts.
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Nancy Steele

1993 Fellow
Dr. Nancy Steele focuses her work on the protection and conservation of land and water, striving always to have a direct positive impact on nature and humanity. She is a professional executive manager who has founded and led nonprofits and served on boards of directors. Endlessly curious, she applies a scientists mind to answering questions that result in turning data into actionable knowledge resulting in good policies and practices.
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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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Roger Geller

1991 Fellow
Roger is working for the City of Portland's bicycle program where he is managing a $350,000 Federal Highway Administration grant. With this grant, he is developing a model public/private partnership program to increase the rate of bicycle...