Water Resources

Todd Gartner is a Senior Associate for the World Resources Institute’s Food, Forests & Water Program. He runs WRI's Natural Infrastructure for Water project working with governments and businesses to invest in conserving and restoring...

As Stewardship Director for Northwest Watershed Institute (NWI), Jude focuses her work on the Tarboo Creek Watershed Restoration Program, an effort to restore and protect native salmon and wildlife habitat to a 7,000 acre rural watershed on...

Mark Tompkins earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley, where he investigated the role of floodplains in river restoration efforts. Floodplains provide important aquatic and...

Jessica Levine is the Conserving Land and Water Strategy Lead for The Nature Conservancy in New England and the Coordinator of the Staying Connected Initiative, a binational landscape connectivity partnership. She serves on the Executive...

Laura is a program officer in the Climate and Clean Energy Program of the Heising-Simons Foundation, where she leads the Foundation's efforts to support grantees working to reduce emissions from the utility sectors. From 2008-2019, Laura...

Jessica Davenport supports the creation of resilient landscapes for people and nature in the San Francisco Bay Area as Deputy Program Manager for both the California State Coastal Conservancy’s Bay Area Program and the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority.

Chris Bowser is the Education Coordinator for the NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program and the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, in partnership with the Water Resource Institute of Cornell University. Chris’s current work...

David's research focuses on institutional environmental transformation and governance. While much of his work has focused on East Asia, he is interested in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, as well. His Switzer-supported...

Karen is the Director of Water and Coastal Policy at the National Audubon Society. Prior to this position, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks at the Department of the Interior, and held several...