Natural Resource Management

Fellow Story

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
Fellow Story

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
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Tamara Marcus

2019 Fellow
Tamara is a graduate student in the Natural Resources and Earth System Sciences Ph.D. program at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include using bioinformatic techniques to understand the impact of warming on microbial...
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Melissa Cronin

2019 Fellow
Melissa Cronin is a Smith Conservation Research Fellow and postdoctoral researcher hosted by the Coasts and Commons Co-Laboratory at Duke University. She is an interdisciplinary marine conservation scientist and studies the impacts of industrial fishing on ecosystems, threatened species, and human communities. She is co-founder of the conservation organization Mobula Conservation (www.mobulaconservation.org) and co-founder and CEO of FieldFutures (www.fieldfutures.org).
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Christine Wilkinson

2019 Fellow
Christine Wilkinson is a conservation biologist, 2022 Schmidt Science Fellow, and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research...
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Brittani Orona

2019 Fellow
Brittani R. Orona is an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Human Rights at UC Davis in Spring 2022. She is currently an Assistant Professor of American...
Leadership Grant Grant

Southern California Conservation Analyst: Year Two

California Native Plant Society (CNPS) hired Nick Jensen as its first Southern California Conservation Analyst in 2017, with support from a Switzer Leadership Grant. This second year of funding will provide continued support as CNPS...
May 22, 2019
Fellow Story

Zollitsch quoted in Inside EPA article on lack of talks on Section 401

Officials from a variety of states are continuing to raise concerns over what they say is EPA's failure to consult with them as officials weigh President Donald Trump's recent order requiring EPA to limit states' Clean Water Act (CWA) roles reviewing federal decisions, despite the agency's pledge to “immediately engage with our state and tribal partners.”
May 15, 2019
Fellow Story

Sustainability crisis: Santa Cruz County’s natural areas tourism

Santa Cruz County residents have done a fair job of preserving nature and building a tourist economy, but the sustainability of nature tourism is at crisis point, writes Fellow Grey Hayes.
May 7, 2019
Fellow Story

Can genetic engineering save disappearing forests?

Humans have not yet released a genetically engineered plant that is intended to spread and persist in an unmanaged environment. Biotech trees – genetically engineered or gene-edited – offer the possibility of releasing genetically engineered trees into forests to counter threats to forest health and represent a new frontier in biotechnology, writes Fellow Jason Delborne.
January 23, 2019