Position: Lead Scientist, South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project July 2020 Donna Ball joined the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project in February 2020 as their Lead Scientist. Through a partnership between the Restoration Project and the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI), Donna works half-time guiding the Restoration Project’s Science Program and half-time on other … Read more
Position: Executive Project Manager, South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project (SBSP) July 2020 Dave Halsing has been the Executive Project Manager of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project (SBSP) since early 2019. He is not at all new to the project, however, having worked on it since 2012 as a consultant with URS and … Read more
Position/Occupation: President, Marin Audubon Society February 2020 Barbara and Arthur Feinstein (with Sam Schuchat) receiving the 2017 State of the Estuary Legacy award Barbara Salzman is a legend. If you have ever participated in any stage of wetland restoration work in Marin County you have surely met her. She has been working in the field … Read more
Name: Jeff McCreary Position/Occupation: Director of Conservation Programs, Ducks Unlimited, Inc. and San Francisco Bay Joint Venture (SFBJV) Management Board Chair, 2018-2020 December 2019 Jeff McCreary currently serves as Director of Conservation Programs for Ducks Unlimited’s (DU) Western Region, and as the Chair of the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Management Board. His career spans over … Read more
Name: Sam Veloz Position/Occupation: Climate Adaptation Group Director, Point Blue Conservation Science May 2019 Sam Veloz has been working at Point Blue for the past 9 years. He was first hired as a Spatial Ecologist in 2010 before being promoted to Director of Point Blue’s Climate Adaptation Group in 2015. In his current role Sam … Read more
Name: Cheryl Strong Position/Occupation: Wildlife Biologist, US Fish and Wildlife Service May 2019 Cheryl Strong has been a wildlife biologist at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge for about 12 years. Before working for the Refuge, Cheryl worked for the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory as the Waterbirds Program Director. The difference, … Read more
Name: Beth Huning Position/Occupation: SFBJV Coordinator 2001-2018 January 2019 Beth Huning served as the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Coordinator from 2001-2018, and was a driving force behind its establishment. While working at Audubon, she collaborated with the first Joint Venture (JV) Coordinator, Nancy Schaefer, and colleagues Marge Kolar (USFWS), Marc Holmes (The Bay Institute), … Read more
Name: Ariana Rickard Position/Occupation: Chapter Network Associate Director, Audubon California August 2018 In the fall of 2011, Ariana and her husband Pierre moved to the Bay Area from New York City. During her job-hunt, she attended a Watershed Symposium in Brentwood and happened to sit at Sandra Scoggin’s table and learned about the San Francisco … Read more
Name: Matt Gerhart Position/Occupation: Program Manager, San Francisco Bay Area with the State Coastal Conservancy June 2018 Matt has been working for the Coastal Conservancy since 2007 when he moved back to the Bay Area after three years working for the Mendocino Land Trust on the North Coast. Initially, he worked on projects in Mendocino … Read more
Name: John Bourgeois Position/Occupation: Executive Project Manager, South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project February 2018 John Bourgeois became Executive Project Manager of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project in 2009. Previously, John was a restoration ecologist with the Bay Area ecological consulting firm H. T. Harvey & Associates where he worked on numerous San … Read more
