Peter Vanderbloomer, M.S.

Principal Ecologist ​​​

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Peter VanderBloomer is in the final year of obtaining his master's degree in environmental science from Yale University. His thesis research investigates the influence of indigenous agroforestry systems on forest composition and soil chemistry in the Ecuadorian Amazon. With a bachelor's degree in Marine Sciences, and past research that includes Caribbean coral reef ecology, California fisheries and kelp forest research, as well as Amazonian freshwater science, Peter brings a global perspective to environmental management and research. 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, water column sampling in the Santa Barbara Channel, 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 have informed his understanding of environmental management. Productive agricultural systems can provide sustenance to human communities without inflicting negative long-term impacts to biodiversity or soil chemistry. Peter seeks to take these understandings and rework them for application to temperate systems.