Stan Rowland is Chairman and President of Tetiaroa Society, an environmental NGO based on the atoll of Tetiaroa in French Polynesia. Tetiaroa Society sponsors scientific research on issues ranging from ocean acidification and coral bleaching to shark research and mosquito control, manages island and ocean conservation projects, and runs an educational program for local schoolchildren […]

Co-founder of and over twenty years in senior executive positions with both the Conservation Society of Pohnpei (CSP) and the Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT). Extensive experience in non-profit management, strategic planning, organizational capacity development and mentoring, fundraising, conservation financing, and endowments, community advocacy and empowerment, government relations, coastal fisheries, and protected areas management, ecosystem-based adaptation, […]

Dr. Larry Clark is currently the principal and director of METIS, Ltd., a consulting enterprise in the area of applied biology and policy. Larry is recently retired as the director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Wildlife Research Center (2008-2019), where he also served as Assistant Director (2005-2008) and research scientist (1990-2005). Prior to […]

Dr. Claudio Campagna is a conservation researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCSC. He has an MD from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Ph.D. in Biology from UCSC. He has been a field conservationist and scientist working in coastal […]

Chris Bley is a Santa Cruz based serial entrepreneur and founder of a drone innovation hub, Airspace Integration. Chris has been involved in the renewable energy industry for 20 plus years.  He founded Rope Partner in 2001, a rope access service company located in Santa Cruz which uses ropes to gain access on utility scale wind […]

Alex Wegmann, PhD: A 20-year veteran of managing and advising conservation projects in the Pacific, Alex Wegmann became The Nature Conservancy’s Palmyra Program Director in 2016 and then the Director of Science for the Palmyra Program in 2019. Prior to joining the Conservancy, Alex worked for Island Conservation for more than 10 years. Alex’s tenure […]

Eric VanderWerf earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 1988 and Master of Science degree from the University of Florida in 1992.  In 1999, he completed a Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii, where his research focused on plumage variation and effects of habitat disturbance and diseases on population biology of the […]

Nick Holmes’ career and passion focus on research program management and conservation ecology. He earned his PhD from the University of Tasmania, Australia, working with the Australian Antarctic Division to develop best-practice guidelines for managing human impacts to seabirds in the subantarctic. Nick managed the Kaua‘i Endangered Seabird Recovery Project at the Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, […]