People
SUN has joined forces with EarthCorps! The following former SUN employees can now be found at EarthCorps:
Sharon London, EarthCorps Science Director
Sharon London has experience as both a natural resource manager and educator. She previously served as the Executive Director of Homewaters Project, an organization that connects Seattle area school children with local nature and community using inquiry based science and GIS. Prior to this, she performed GIS analysis on salmon habitat at the National Marine Fisheries Science Center, NOAA. She has also worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF International) as an advisor for Lao forestry officials assisting in the establishment of a trans-boundary protected area between Laos and Vietnam. Her teaching experience has been as an adjunct faculty in Geography at Western Washington University and Antioch University. London served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand at a national park teaching environmental education and English to local students. London holds an M.S. in Geography from Oregon State University with a focus on GIS and Forestry and a B.A. in Geography from the University of California at Berkeley. London joined SUN in October 2006.
Ella Elman, EarthCorps Ecologist
Ella Elman has held a wide range of positions with nonprofits, government and academia. Prior to joining SUN , Ella spent 5 years working with volunteers at the Cornell Cooperative Extension in New York, a season with the King County Noxious Weed Program as a Noxious Weed Specialist, and several years administrating biological data transfer projects for the Pacific Northwest Information Node. In her last job with the US Forest Service Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Ella characterized fuel loadings for various types of forest ecoystems in the Western United States. Ella holds a B.S. in Natural Resources from Cornell University and an M.S. in Forest Ecosystem Analysis from the University of Washington.
Nelson Salisbury, EarthCorps Ecologist
Nelson Salisbury earned his Bachelor of Science degree with a major in botany from Humboldt State University. Since his graduation he has had the opportunity to experience a variety of disciplines within the natural sciences through work with the Bureau of Land Management, The Pacific Lumber Co., and the Student Conservation Association. His duties have included monitoring range and riparian areas on federal lands in Southern Idaho, surveying for rare and endangered plant species on private timber holdings in Coastal Northern California, and managing teams of volunteers collecting native plant seeds for the Millennium Seed Bank Project in Southern and Central Oregon. He is a graduate of the Native Plant Stewardship Program and a member of the Washington Native Plant Society.
