Posts in: Leadership in Action

Dr. Natalya Gallo is a postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a 2017 Switzer Fellow. We first met Natalya when she attended our 2014 Ocean Acidification Communication Workshop as a graduate student, and worked with her again at our Ocean Acidification and Advanced Policy Training and during the Switzer Fellowship Training. The remarks below...

Dr. Allison Coffin is an assistant professor at Washington State University (WSU) Vancouver, where her lab researches sensory hair cell function and hearing preservation/loss through studying fish. COMPASS first met Allison in October 2015, when Nancy Baron, our Director of Science Outreach, led a two-day communication workshop for the WSU Center for Environmental ...

Dr. Diana H. Wall is a soil ecologist and environmental scientist, and is the Founding Director of the School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) at Colorado State University (CSU). Diana’s passion for soil ecology and nematodes has taken her all over the world, including over twenty-five trips to Antarctica. Diana’s work and career was profiled in N...

Dr. Daniel Swain is a climate scientist and author of Weather West, a blog where he shares information and insights into weather and climate patterns in the western U.S., with a particular focus on California. Daniel started Weather West in 2006, and now it reaches over a million readers a year. We worked with Daniel when he was a 2015 Switzer Fellow, and are excit...

Earlier this fall, I attended the Our Ocean conference held by the State Department in Washington, DC. I was fortunate enough to be selected to cover the event on social media and had a first row seat to hear amazing speakers like President Obama, Secretary John Kerry, and other world leaders, and witness global commitments to ocean health. I was blown away by...

Sergio Avila leads collaborative efforts on connectivity for wildlife, and habitat restoration and conservation in northwest Sonora and southeast Arizona. He has found his niche as a bridge between cultures, languages and approaches to the conservation of biodiversity in the US-Mexico border. We asked Sergio to share his thoughts with us about his experience as a W...