Elizabeth Crisfield, a conservation scientist for greater than 20 years, has been chosen as the brand new Government Director of ClearWater Conservancy starting Could 1, 2024.
“I’m so honored and excited to be becoming a member of the workers of ClearWater Conservancy,” Crisfield stated. “ClearWater has a 40-plus-year legacy of land and water conservation in Central Pennsylvania, and I’m wanting ahead to contributing my expertise and fervour to furthering the mission.” All through the interview course of, Elizabeth expressed her aim to speculate her efforts and experience in securing central Pennsylvania’s pure sources in a significant and enduring approach.
Crisfield involves ClearWater with experiences starting from working as a hydrologist and water rights negotiator as a part of an interagency crew for Everglades Nationwide Park in Florida to her present place because the founding marketing consultant of the Strategic Stewardship Initiative. Since 2015, Elizabeth has been consulting with state fish and wildlife businesses with a concentrate on the prioritization of conservation actions to guard uncommon and declining species. She can be the president-elect of the Pennsylvania Organic Survey, an all-volunteer group of organic consultants assessing the conservation standing of taxonomic teams to safe and get better imperiled species. She assumes the presidency this yr.
“That is an thrilling time for ClearWater as we welcome Elizabeth as our new Government Director to help our unbelievable workers, board members, and volunteers,” stated ClearWater’s Board President Kevin McGarry.
Crisfield graduated from James Madison College with a bachelor’s diploma in physics in 1994, obtained a Grasp of Science in Agronomy (soil physics) in 1999 after which obtained her doctorate from The Pennsylvania State College in Geography in 2012. Her dissertation centered on alternatives for local weather adaptation within the Appalachian Mountains.
Elizabeth and her companion, Doug Henry, an architect, have two school-aged youngsters. They take pleasure in climbing, bicycling and tenting as a household.
This publish tailored from releases by ClearWater Conservancy.
