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Meet our staff

Center personnel

Center faculty

Center research associates

Chris Balzotti

The Nature Conservancy

John Burns

University of Hawaii, Hilo

Rhett Butler

Mongabay.com

Shawna Foo

University of Sydney

Atsuko Fukunaga

Adjunct Professor
University of Hawaii, Manoa

Jamison Gove

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

John Kittinger

Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation and Conservation International

Amy Mainzer

The University of Arizona

Steve Schill

The Nature Conservancy

Miles Silman

Wake Forest University

David R. Thompson

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Carly Wyman

Senior Research Specialist, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems