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2007 SMITH CONSERVATION FELLOWS

The Society for Conservation Biology and the Cedar Tree Foundation are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2007 David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship: Victoria Bakker, Julia Baum, Jedediah Brodie, and Peter McIntyre. The Fellows were selected on 9 January from a pool of highly qualified recent recipients of Ph.D.s from around the world.

The David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship seeks to find solutions to the most pressing conservation challenges in the United States. Each Fellow's research is conducted in partnership with a major academic institution and a practice-based conservation organization to help bridge the gap between theory and application.

Victoria Bakker will be based at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she will concentrate on the project "Connecting monitoring data to conservation action: development of population viability management strategies for rare and endangered carnivores" under the academic mentorship of Daniel Doak and Kevin Crooks and in partnership with Scott Morrison of The Nature Conservancy.

Julia Baum will be based at the University of California, San Diego, where she will conduct the project "Sharks on coral reefs: estimating baseline abundances and ecosystem consequences of their elimination" with academic mentors Fiorenza Micheli and Enric Sala and partners Rod Salm and Pamela Weiant of The Nature Conservancy.

Jedediah Brodie will examine "Understanding and mitigating the effects of climate change on the elk-aspen interaction in the northern Rocky Mountains, USA" at Pennsylvania State University. He will work under the academic mentorship of Eric Post and in partnership with Joel Berger of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Peter McIntyre will be based at the University of Michigan, where he will complete the project "Connecting fish management to ecosystem functioning: a nutrient-based approach" with academic mentor David Allan and in partnership with Robin Abell of the World Wildlife Fund and Patrick Doran of The Nature Conservancy.

The Program's Executive Director, Michael Dombeck, says, "The Smith Fellowship enables young scientists to improve and expand their research skills and direct their research efforts toward problems of pressing conservation concern, to bridge the gap between research and application." The Fellows' research projects focus on urgent conservation issues, but they also learn directly about the challenges and rewards of applying science to conservation. The program's focus is to enlarge the Fellows' professional opportunities and ensure future success by helping them build relationships in the conservation and research communities and by providing opportunities for professional development through targeted workshops and training events.

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