Peter Vanderbloomer, M.S.

Principal Ecologist ​​​

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Peter VanderBloomer holds a master's degree in environmental science from Yale University and a bachelor's degree in marine sciences from Cal Poly SLO. His masters thesis research investigated the influence of indigenous agroforestry systems on forest composition and soil chemistry in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He has led or been a part of research in California kelp forests, Caribbean coral reefs, Amazonian oxbow lakes, and the agroforestry systems of Ecuador's Waorani indigenous communities. He has three years experience working as an environmental consultant, where he was responsible for technical report writing of Biological Assessments, carrying out intertidal and subtidal (SCUBA-based) ecological surveys at Diablo Canyon Power Plant and the adjacent nearshore ocean, and Morro Bay National Estuary Program eelgrass restoration.

 

Peter is an AAUS-certified scientific scuba diver, fluent in Spanish, and well traveled throughout California and the Americas more generally. He is a backpacker, an avid reader, and obsessed with human-environment relations, broadly considered. His work with indigenous peoples in some of the most remote stretches of the Amazon rainforest has informed his understanding of environmental management. Peter seeks to take these understandings and rework them for application to temperate systems.