Water Resources

Jennifer completed her PhD in Biology at Boston University on Jan. 2005, with an emphasis on marine ecology. After completing her PhD she received an NSF postdoctoral fellowship in Microbial Biology in which she focused on understanding how...

Michael is broadly interested in the impacts of climate variability and change on society. After receiving his BS in physics from UCSD, he served as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania. Michael managed several projects dealing...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...