Natural Resource Management

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Mehana Vaughan

2009 Fellow
Mehana Blaich Vaughan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and U.H. Sea Grant. Mehana studies interactions between people and the environment...
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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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Amy Rogers

2005 Fellow
Amy Rogers is an experienced conservation scientist and practitioner focused on innovating long-term, interdisciplinary solutions to complex environmental challenges. With over twenty years of field experience in tropical Latin America, her...
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Vickie Bakker

1997 Fellow
Vickie’s work is geared toward adapting the academic tools of quantitative conservation ecology to the real world problems of conservation practitioners in the management of endangered species. In an approach she refers to as Population...
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Susannah McCandless

2004 Fellow
Susannah McCandless received her doctorate in human-environment geography and political ecology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2010, and works with the non-profit Global Diversity Foundation (www.global-diversity.org)...
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Lou Thompson

1999 Fellow
Lou Thompson has a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Maine. Currently he is pursuing a Masters Degree in Community Economic Development from the New Hampshire College, Graduate School of Business. Lou is an...
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Becca Quinones

2001 Fellow
With the support that she received from the Switzer Foundation, Becca recieved her Master's of Science degree in Fisheries Biology from Humboldt State University in May of 2003. She worked as a fisheries biologist for the Klamath National...
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Melissa Nelson

1996 Fellow
Melissa graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 1991 with an honors BA in Integrated Ecology and graduated from UC Davis in 2000 with a Ph.D. in Ecology. For the 28 years, she served as the Executive Director and President of The Cultural...
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Jeanne Anderson

2002 Fellow
Jeanne is doing post-doctoral work with the Complex Systems Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. She is interested in applications of remote sensing to questions in conservation biology and ecology. Her research will look at...
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Grey Hayes

1999 Fellow
Since 1989, Dr. Grey Hayes has focused on agroecology and natural systems ecology of California’s central coast. His project experience includes work with the Ohlone tiger beetle (Cicindela ohlone) and red-legged frog (Rana draytonii), as...