You’re invited to watch a new Nature Conservancy film called “A day in the Life” that celebrates the hard work and commitment of Nature Conservancy scientists and collaborators who everyday provide the knowledge crucial for a future where people, lands, and waters thrive in balance
TNC scientists and collaborators work in real world settings that have wide ranging impacts on people’s lives. Their work contributes new data and learning to research at the local, regional, and global level. By focusing on collective success to meet conservation and community outcomes, TNC scientists are committed to climate and biodiversity solutions.
Together, we find a way.
Art Director and Producer: Erica Sloniker, The Nature Conservancy
Script Writer and Producer: Leah Palmer, The Nature Conservancy
Director of Photography and Editor: Jenny Ting
Producer and Consulting Editor: Michele Gomes
Camera Operator and Drone Pilot: Jeremiah Kaynor
Sound Mix: Cheryl Ottenritter and Jeremy Guyre
The Cle Elum Wildlife Project is improving our understanding of how wildlife use and move through protected forest landscapes, providing us with an opportunity to test how forest management practices impact wildlife and building an evidence base for permanent protection.
New research identifies how forest conditions interact with snowpack in the Cascades Mountain range in Washington State. Focused on the drier eastern slopes, this research informs forest restoration strategies that both protect water supplies and reduce wildfire risk.
New research out of the Ellsworth Creek Preserve offers insights into how we can accelerate the development of the old-growth traits that help forests persevere through the most severe impacts of climate change.
The way of connection is revealed by water—snowy summits melting, forging rivers, winding streams and cutting wetlands to spill over a salty edge. Join Dr. Emily Howe, Ecologist of Aquatic Environments for TNC Washington, as she poetically details the interconnectedness of a watershed.
A new video promotes the hard work and commitment of Nature Conservancy scientists and collaborators who everyday provide the knowledge crucial for a future where people, lands, and waters thrive in balance.
How do you measure a year? For our Science Team, that evaluation often includes tallying up the articles that we helped get published in scientific journals.
Drones have emerged as a groundbreaking tool extending our reach beyond the limits of human exploration. While many are familiar with seeing the possibilities in adventure photography or package delivery, the use of drones in conservation has become increasingly creative for those both out in the field and in the lab.
This summer, two University of Washington students joined The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC’s) Science Team as conservation science interns. Alex Crabtree and Katie Thomas spent nine weeks with TNC WA through UW’s EarthLab Summer Internship Program.
From snowpack to ecological fire to community access and resiliency, research and work that’s happening on Cle Elum Ridge is helping us learn and make a difference.
Cassie Lumbrazo, a Ph.D. student from the University of Washington, is dedicated to understanding the relationship between forests and snow. Together with an interdisciplinary research team and support from the Washington Department of Natural Resources and the Nature Conservancy, Cassie investigates forest-snow processes near Cle Elum Ridge.
Nature Conservancy and University of Washington researchers are monitoring seedling growth and mortality along with local climate to evaluate climate resilience in the face of a changing climate at Ellsworth Creek Preserve.
In the depths of the Ellsworth Creek Preserve forest we found over 1000 different species, across 10 phylum and scientific kingdoms. From Annelids (worms) to Basidiomycetes (fungus) from Arthropods (bees) to Chordates (humans)! Multiple species have either lurked or lived in the soils of Ellsworth.
Through our GRIT work, we are finding that temperature declines linearly with tree canopy cover. Because this relationship is linear, it suggests that there is no threshold tree cover required to affect air temperature; instead, every bit of additional tree canopy seems to help reduce local air temperature on hot days.
Using dynamite for restoration may seem like a paradox, but at TNC’s Port Susan Bay Preserve, we explored dynamite as a way to create estuary channels. The inspiration behind this method was to see if explosives could reduce the ecological impact of channel creation in comparison to using heavy machinery.
Dr. Tiara Moore, founder of Black in Marine Science bravely reveals stories from her life in this profile. Discover what motivates BIMS’ ambitious sustainability plan to secure an equitable future for marine science.