Team category : Emeritus Board Members or Advisors
Don Croll
Don Croll is a Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz, Co-founder of Island Conservation, founding partner and Science Director of the conservation for-profit Conservation Metrics, Inc., Faculty Director of the UCSC Natural Reserve System, and a National Geographic Fellow. He has conducted conservation research on island ecosystems and marine vertebrates for over […]
Stan Rowland
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 […]
Willy Kostka
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, […]
Larry Clark
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 […]
Claudio Campagna
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
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 […]
Saif Al–Ghais
Saif Al–Ghais – is a marine biologist dedicated to the cause of environmental conservation and sustainable management of natural resources in the Arabian Gulf. Currently, Dr. Al Ghais is the Director General of the Environment Protection & Development Authority in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor at Western Washington University, U.S.A. […]
Gregg Goolsby
Gregg Goolsby served for many years as an executive working in various senior management positions in the automotive industry. His positions focused primarily on marketing and dealer network management. He has had a life-long interest in teaching and served for many years as an adjunct professor in the MBA programs at Fordham University and Seattle […]