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John Sargent

John Sargent was raised on a ranch in Wyoming. He got nice degrees from good schools. He worked at three different publishers before going to Simon and Schuster to run the Children’s Book division at the age of 29. He spent 6 years there, followed by 3 years as the CEO of DK Publishing. In 1996 he went to work as the CEO of St Martin’s Press. Three years later he was put in charge of Holtzbrinck’s US publishers and was responsible for forming the company that is today’s Macmillan. He worked there as CEO until the end of 2020. He has authored four books.

Angie Garcia

Angie is the Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator for both the Arctic Data Center and DataONE, where she furthers both projects' presence in their respective communities and the broader community. She holds a B.A. in Global Studies and Environmental Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Angie has helped other think-and-do tanks with science communication and further developed her leadership skills through various roles in organizations while at UCSB.

NCEAS Portraits: Will McClintock and Grace Goldberg Enable Smart Decisions about Managing Oceans

NCEAS Portraits: Will McClintock and Grace Goldberg Enable Smart Decisions about Managing Oceans

Mona Farnisa

Mona Farnisa is a data analyst on the Western Wildfire Resilience Index (WWRI) project at NCEAS. Before getting into ecological data analysis, Mona worked in the agriculture sector and was interested in combining greenhouse agricultural production and environmental data metrics. Mona has a M.S. in environmental science and natural resources from the University of Nevada, Reno, where she researched high desert floral hemp, and a B.S. in environmental science from Amsterdam University College in The Netherlands.

Dance with neighbors: What have we learned about species coexistence in tree communities from the global stem-mapped forest plots

Principal Investigator(s): Fangliang He, Richard Condit, Stephen P. Hubbell, Thorsten Wiegand

NCEAS’ SeaSketch program makes strides towards global 30 by 30 goal

GEI: Synthesizing environmental and biological monitoring data to assess how fisheries resources along Texas coasts are impacted by severe weather events, using a total ecosystem approach

Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Biggs, Zhanfei Liu

Ocean Health Index

The Ocean Health Index measures the things we value about oceans.

Unpacking social equity from biodiversity data

NCEAS postdoc Millie Chapman and director Ben Halpern call for attention to social and political equity in biodiversity data, discuss possible policy implications.