Natural Resource Management

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Jesus gives Wildflower Bloom and Bust Cycles talk on April 22

Many of us have been able to experience the magic of vibrant hillsides showing a kaleidoscope of colors during a superbloom in California, but why isn't every year a superbloom year?
April 15, 2021
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Breakthrough Collaboration on Environmental Problems: Lessons from the field on engaging communities, building consensus and managing conflict on environmental issues

On March 19, 2021, practitioners in the field of environmental conflict resolution & stakeholder engagement at the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), including Switzer Fellow Ekow Edzie, hosted a webinar for Switzer Network Fellows to...
April 13, 2021
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Meyerson named fellow of Ecological Society of America

University of Rhode Island (URI) Professor Laura Meyerson has been elected a fellow of the Ecological Society of America for her contributions to ecological research and policy. Meyerson has been studying invasive species since 1995 and has been a leading advocate for addressing invasive species as a national biosecurity issue since joining the URI faculty in 2005.
March 31, 2021
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Kristin Dobbin

2020 Fellow
Kristin (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley focused on water justice policy and planning in California.
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Katie Pofahl

2020 Fellow
Katie Pofahl is the Eastern Washington Community Relations Manager with the Climate Resilient Forests and Communities team at The Nature Conservancy. Katie is based in the Central Cascades and her role focuses on working with local...
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Christina De Jesús Villanueva

2020 Fellow
Christina is a conservation scientist passionate about applying research in natural resource management. For the past decade her work has focused on the Invasive Green Iguana, which Christina used as a model to learn multiple approaches to...
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Raven Graf

2020 Fellow
Previously, Raven served Senator Sheldon Whitehouse as a legislative correspondent for climate and energy. They earned their Masters of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. They are interested in the challenges and...
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Alejandro Artiga-Purcell

2020 Fellow
James Alejandro Artiga-Purcell is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Communication, in the Communication Studies Department at San Jose State University. He received his Ph.D. in the Environmental Studies department at UC Santa Cruz...
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Keith Parker: Researching bizarre prehistoric fish to preserve Yurok culture

For the Yurok tribe, fishing isn’t a recreational weekend activity to be paired with a cold beer. It’s a way of subsistence, a way of life. Fellow Keith Parker’s groundbreaking biology research regarding a new subspecies of Pacific lamprey, recently published in the science journal Molecular Ecology, may be the key to saving his tribe’s way of life.
September 30, 2019
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Rubin publishes guide for mobilizing volunteer groups in large-scale tree-planting and restoration work

Since 2004, Northwest Watershed Institute has been working closely with local schools to plant 5,000 trees annually in an event known as “The Plant-A-Thon.” Together, more than 1,000 people have planted 156,000 trees and have raised $200,000+ for local schools.
September 30, 2019