Posts in: Leadership in Action

COMPASS's Christina Hoenow interviews Dr. Jamie Peeler, a landscape ecologist dedicated to tackling forest conservation challenges in a more fire-prone world. She shares some of her reflections from the workshop, putting her communication skills into practice, and why engaging with communities and policymakers is so important....

Sara Nawaz is an environmental social scientist who studies the social dimensions of technologies and policies aimed at using the oceans to suck up CO2, an approach that researchers call marine-based carbon dioxide removal, or mCDR for short. In this interview with COMPASS’s Nicolle Etchart, why she's excited to work in this field and offers some insights on what scientists should consider when thinking about how to meaningfully and ethically engage with people around novel technologies....

Along the sunset shores of northern California with waves gently crashing in the distance, 20 researchers spanning career stages and expertise gathered in solidarity to create the early drafts of “Centering relationships to place for more meaningful research and engagement.” That is how I would like to begin this blog — however that is entirely not what ha...

In this video, Dr. Nina Fontana joins COMPASS's Bob Crimian to reflect on her experience in the workshop, how she's building on the skills she learned, and why it's important to her to bring research back to communities and policy....

The environmental history of the southeastern United States — as in many parts of the “New World” — was irrevocably changed by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. European colonization decimated Indigenous and Native communities, and the need for resources and cheap labor drove economic growth as the world entered the Industrial Revolution. While the landscape ...

My journey with COMPASS began 12 years ago, when I was a newish Program Officer at Wilburforce Foundation, trying to find ways for science to more effectively inform conservation. We quickly developed a rewarding partnership: I was able to support COMPASS in expanding their scope beyond the ocean realm, and COMPASS brought their deep knowledge in training, connecti...