Dr. Jody Holmes has a doctorate in botany from the University of British Columbia and worked for BC Wild from 1995-1998. Dr. Holmes has a long-standing interest in conservation biology and ecology as well as having strong management and organizational skills. In the past Dr. Holmes sat on the executive committee of the Canadian Rainforest Network, the BC Grasslands Conservation Council, the BC Endangered Species Coalition, the Hollyhock Leadership Initiative and the Leadership Initiative for Earth.
Staff and Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Jody Holmes, Ph.D.
Director, Living Oceans Society
Astrid Scholz, Ph.D.
Vice President, Knowledge Systems, Ecotrust
Director, Living Oceans Society
Astrid Scholz is Vice President for Knowledge Systems at Ecotrust, a Portland, Oregon, based conservation organization committed to building a future that strengthens communities and the environment from Alaska to California--the lands and waters of Salmon Nation. Responsible for managing Ecotrust's analytical, technical and cartographic capacities, she oversees a staff of 12 and a variety of projects that link the social, economic and ecological systems of the bioregion. Astrid is an affiliate faculty member of Oregon State University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, and is the co-editor of a book on integrated marine geographic information systems, Place Matters, published by OSU Press in spring 2005. She serves on the boards of the Pacific Marine Conservation Council, Habitat Media and Living Oceans Society, and is a member of the Science Advisory Team to the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative in California. She received her M.A. in Economics and Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews, her M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Bristol, and her Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.
Tundi Spring Agardy, Ph.D.
Director, Living Oceans Society
Director, Living Oceans Society
Tundi Agardy feels fortunate to have had extensive field and policy experience in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, North America and the Pacific.
She specializes in coastal planning and assessment, marine protected areas, fisheries management, and ocean zoning, and has published widely in these fields.
Tundi founded Sound Seas in 2001 as an independent group working at the nexus of policy and science to promote marine conservation. At Forest Trends, she heads up the MARES initiative – a program looking to protect Marine Ecosystem Services through payments for ecosystem services markets. She is also Science and Policy Director for the World Ocean Observatory, and is Editor of MEAM, the quarterly newsletter on Marine Ecosystems and Management published by the University of Washington.
