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Tina Aldinger
Germany
Tina is a Forestry and Resources Management student at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Freising, Bavaria, Germany. |
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Vanessa Bullwinkle
Washington DC, USA
Vanessa is
responsible for communications, public affairs and operations for the American Forest Foundation's Center for Environmental Learning. She develops communications strategies to publicize, promote, brand and market AFF's environmental education programs, including the world-renowned and award-winning Project Learning Tree (PLT) program. |
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Carolina Cavedon
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Carolina has a biology background and taught in K-12 schools in Brazil. Most recently she taught teachers science education for elementary classrooms. Her new focus is on sustainability, environmental education, and green building. |
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Sue Cummings
Virginia, USA
Sue is an Education Specialist with the US Forest Service. She oversees partnerships with HSS Head Start, Canon Envirothon, Girls Scouts of the USA, and other programs. She also puts on environmental education programs for schools and works with prek-12 students helping teachers incorporate environmental education into their daily routines. |
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Bianca Eskelson
Germany
Bianca is completing a PhD in Forest Biometrics at Oregon State University. Her project is to develop methods to estimate current forest conditions, change, and trends from paneled inventory data, and to update and monitor natural resources over time and space. |
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Ana Lucia Fonseca
Mexico
Ana is currently completing her Masters in Natural Resource Education & Extension at Oregon State University. After graduation she will return to Mexico to apply her new knowledge to the Mexican forest sector, mostly in community development. |
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Indroneil Ganguly
India
Indroneil is a PhD student in Forest Products Market and Research Associate at the University of Washington. He is involved in developing course material and in delivering lectures on Forests and Economic Development in the Developing World. From 1998 to 2002 he worked at the grassroots level with the tribal and non-tribal communities in India in development and enhancement of participatory and sustainable forest management initiatives. |
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Erin Hollingsworth
New Hampshire, USA
Erin is the Education Coordinato for New Hampshire Project Learning Tree. She manages several programs, including Connecting Schools to People and Place, and Building Science Literacy, a Math-Science Partnership Program. |
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Elizabeth Kent
Oregon, USA
Elizabeth is an elementary teacher at
Springwater Environmental Science School where she implement s environmental education activities with students in a field study program. |
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Claudia Leyva
Baja California, Mexico
Claudia is a professor and researcher in the science faculty at Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. She is in the process of completing her PhD in Environmental Science and Development. |
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Amber Lindsey
Oregon, USA
Amber teaches beginning natural resources, biology, and marine science at Tillamook High School. Next school year she will be teaching biology and ecology at St. Helens High School.
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Rob Marohn
Minnesota, USA
Rob is a 5th grade teacher teaching science and language arts and is working on his masters in Environmental Education. Rob serves on the board of Nartley Nature Center and the Superior Hiking Trail Association, as well as Duluth Tree Commission. |
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Deepak Tamang
Kathmandu, Nepal
Deepak is currently an International Fellow at the World Forest Institute. In Nepal he heads a non profit organization called Search-Nepal. Deepak is a senior development specialist with nearly 3 decades of experience working in rural development and environment, including extension, capacity building, planning and monitoring, in Nepal and other countries in South, Central and South-East Asia. |
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Arvin Vista
The Philippines
Arvin is completing a PhD in Forest Resources at Oregon State University. He is a Graduate Research Assistant in an EPA-funded research program focused on the economic estimates of use values of recreation activities in the US and Canada. His research is an investigation of methodological issues in meta-regression analyses as applied to the recreational fishing valuation literature. |
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Ron Ward
South Carolina, USA
Ron is a minister with Mount Tabor Baptist. His wife, Susan, inspired him to attend IEI and learn about environmental education issues. |
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Susan Ward
South Carolina, USA
Susan teaches 7th grade science to students ranging from inclusion to honors. Her classes include South Carolina standards addressing inquiry, human body, ecology, cells, heredity and physical science. |
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Cherie Wyatt
South Carolina, USA
Cherie teaches 7th grade life science and 8th grade physical science at Burlington Middle School. She is also a PLT instructor. Cherie is a co-chair of the steering committee for the High Plains TEN (Teaching Environment Naturally) class, where she guides the planning and implementation for each summer's 4 day, 2 credit class, utilizing local resource people from the Colorado State Forest Service, Colorado Division of Wildlife, Natural Resource Conservation Service, Bonny State Park, local natural sites, and local school districts. |
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Carlos Yruretagoyena
Mexico
Carlos is a special program manager for Fabrica de Papel San Francisco where he studies, evaluates, experiments, and generates new uses for processed cellulose waste. He also does compost and landfill management and minimization of cellulose waste. |
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Min Zhao
Shanghai, China
Min is currently an International Fellow at the World Forest Institute. In China she is a professor at Shanghai Normal University, where she teaches classes such as plant biogeography. Her major research revolves around the impact of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems, with an emphasis on forest carbon cycles and urban ecosystems. |
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