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Meet the scientists working in California

Scott Butterfield

Lead Scientist
Terrestrial

Trish Smith

Senior Ecologist
Climate & Land Use

Carrie Schloss

Lead Scientist
Climate & Land Use

Brian Cohen

Spatial Data Scientist
Technology

Nick Holmes

Island Resilience Strategy Lead
Oceans

Lara Brenner

Island Ecologist
Terrestrial

Piper Wallingford

Climate Resilience Scientist
Climate & Land Use

Maria Viteri

Randall Preserve Ecologist
Terrestrial

Nicholas Hendershot

Forest Ecologist
Climate & Land Use

Sarah Skikne

Natural Climate Solutions Scientist
Climate & Land Use

Gabriel Runte

Applied Scientist
Terrestrial

Alumni

Dick Cameron

Director of Science
Climate
2004-2022

John Randall

Lead Scientist
Terrestrial
2004-2023

Rodd Kelsey

Associate Director, Water Program
Freshwater
2013-current at TNC

Sasha Gennet

Senior Scientist
Terrestrial
2008-current at TNC

Edward Smith

Forest Ecologist
Terrestrial
1995-2024

John Knapp

California Islands Ecologist
Terrestrial
2013-2024

Christina Boser

California Islands Ecologist
Terrestrial
2009-2020

Juli Matos

Biosecurity Science Specialist
Terrestrial
2016-2024

Tanushree Biswas

Spatial Data Scientist
Technology
2016-current at TNC

David Marvin

Climate Change Ecologist
Terrestrial
2016-2018

Daniel Swain

Climate Scientist
Terrestrial
2022-2025

Kristen Shive

Lead Scientist
Terrestrial
2021-2022

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