Board of Directors

Thomas L. Fleischner, Ph.D., President
(Environmental Studies Program, Prescott College)

Tom is Professor of Environmental Studies at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona, where he has taught for twenty years. He has written extensively on natural history, conservation biology, and land management issues. In addition to his homeland in the Central Highlands of Arizona, he has spent significant field time in the slickrock canyon country of the Colorado Plateau, the Gulf of California, Mexico, where he has been studying shorebirds, and the coasts and mountains of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

tfleischner@prescott.edu 928-350-2219

Stephen C. Trombulak, Ph.D., Vice-President, and Editor
Journal of Natural History Education
(Department of Biology and Environmental Studies, Middlebury College)

Steve is the Albert D. Mead Professor of Biology at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. His interests are in the fields of conservation biology, environmental education, and natural history, particularly of birds, mammals, and beetles.

trombulak@middlebury.edu 802-443-5439

Saul Weisberg, Secretary
(North Cascades Institute)

Saul is the executive director and co-founder of North Cascades Institute, a nonprofit conservation education organization in Sedro-Woolley, WA. A national leader in environmental education, Saul worked throughout the Northwest as a wilderness ranger, biologist, fisherman and fire lookout before starting the Institute in 1986. An outstanding naturalist, Saul has written extensively about mountains, watersheds and wildlife, as well as many articles on environmental education. His passions include canoeing, bugs and walking in the mountains in the rain.

saul_weisberg@ncascades.org 360-856-5700, ext. 209

Joshua Tewksbury, Ph.D., Treasurer
(Department of Biology, University of Washington)

Joshua J. Tewksbury is an Associate Professor in the biology department of the University of Washington. His research interests include ecology, evolution and conservation, with active research focused on plant-animal interactions, tropical ecology and evolution, fragmentation and connectivity, physiological responses to climate change, and chemical evolution in ripe fruit. Josh is an advocate for the collection and curation of natural history information, and the integration of natural history information in the conservation and management of populations, species, and ecosystems. Josh is also a founding board member of the Yanayaku Natural History Research Group, the Corridor Research Group, the Connected Washington working group, and the Program on the Environment at the University of Washington.

tewksjj@u.washington.edu 206-616-2129

John Anderson
(College of the Atlantic)

John grew up in Britain, New Zealand, and California and currently holds the William H. Drury, Jr. Chair in Evolution, Ecology, and Natural History at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he has taught for over twenty years. He has studied marine birds and the relationship between cultural history and ecological patterns on Maine’s coastal islands throughout this time. He recently served as President of the Society for Human Ecology, and is Chair of the Human Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America.

jga@coa.edu

Arya Degenhardt
(Mono Lake Committee)

Arya Degenhardt is the Communications Director for the Mono Lake Committee, a non-profit citizens’ group dedicated to protecting and restoring the Mono Basin ecosystem on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in California. She coordinates efforts to inform the public about the Committee’s policy and education work to promote cooperative solutions that protect Mono Lake, and invoke passion on its behalf. She has explored the Mono Basin as a naturalist, photographer, and advocate for over a decade.

arya@monolake.org (760) 647-6386 x11

Sarah Rabkin
(University of California, Santa Cruz; and Independent)

Sarah is a writer, editor, and visual artist with a background in science journalism. A longtime teacher of writing and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she also leads illustrated- field-journal workshops through a variety of field stations and environmental-education organizations on the Pacific Coast, in the Sierra Nevada, and around the American West.

srabkin@ucsc.edu