Archives: Profiles

  • Bob Hamilton

    Bob Hamilton is the Director of the Tallgrass Initiative for The Nature Conservancy in Oklahoma.

    Bob Hamilton
  • Jann Hayman

    Jann Hayman is the secretary of natural resources for the Osage Nation.

    Jann Hayman
  • Pat Thomas

    Pat Thomas was vice president and general curator for the WCS and the associate director of the Bronx Zoo.

    Pat Thomas
  • Wildlife Rehabilitation

    Wildlife rehabilitation is the process of nursing sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife back to health so that they can be returned to the wild.

    Wildlife Rehabilitation
  • Trophic Cascade

    When removing a top predator from an ecosystem causes a domino effect down the entire food chain, it's called a trophic cascade.

    Trophic Cascade
  • Kathryn M. Beheshti

    Dr. Kathryn Beheshti is an assistant researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute. Kat is a coastal marine ecologist that specializes in restoration ecology of salt marsh, seagrass, and kelp habitats. Kat received her Ph.D. from the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2021.…

    Kathryn M. Beheshti
  • Brent Hughes

    Brent is a marine ecologist and conservation biologist with Sonoma State University. Research in his lab seeks to determine the processes that affect the stability of coastal ecosystems. Brent’s research centers around coastal habitats like seagrass, salt marsh, and kelp (aka foundation species), which provide valuable ecosystem services that we depend on and are threatened…

    Brent Hughes
  • Biocultural Restoration

    Biocultural restoration is the practice of revitalizing both ecological systems and the cultures of communities connected to those ecosystems.

    Biocultural Restoration
  • Biological Survey

    When scientists systematically review the plants, animals, and other life in a freshwater ecosystem like a lake or river, it is called a biological survey or biosurvey.

    Biological Survey
  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge

    Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) refers to the body of knowledge, practices, and beliefs acquired by Indigenous people over hundreds or thousands of years through direct contact with their environment.

    Traditional Ecological Knowledge