We live on an amazing planet, rich with life and a vibrant civilization... Let's keep it that way!

I’m helping "Team Humanity" combine our complex knowledge about land-use and management into easy and useful decision support tools. We can then reference these tools when making tough decisions about our environment. (These tools will manifest in many ways, including web maps showing which areas are priorities for ecological processes, and which areas are better to develop.) Other tools will help us in combining our knowledge, such as those for place-based citizen science or those for mapping habitat connectivity. This would all occur and cross link at local to global scales.

This path was fostered in childhood by living at a Hopi reservation, rural coastal California, and Saudi Arabia. I developed a wonder for both technology and Nature. As an adult I received top honors while gaining degrees in Envtl. Studies, Ecology, and Geography at Univ. of California, Santa Barbara. I balanced this with two decades of work with a conservation science NGO, an ecology institute, a field biology consultancy, a research group in South Africa, an advocacy NGO, and being a member of the Spatial Decision Support Consortium.

I’m proud and excited to put all this training to work at Conservation Biology Institute, an NGO at the cutting edge of this broader mission. (For instance, we built Data Basin, a free web mapper with over 10,000 data layers. Try it! You can make, share, and print a map of your favorite region and topics in minutes. It also provides visualization of the conservation planning analyses we provide for clients, many of which are partnerships comprised of traditionally opposing stakeholders working together to attain win-win solutions.)

Building this collective “Voice” for Nature is a grand challenge that no organization can do alone. There is so much to engineer, to monitor, to communicate, and to hear that the collaborative web is essential.

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