Alamos Wildlands Alliance Staff
Heather May (President) is a Washington State life resident who has studied natural history most of her life. Heather graduated with a B.S. from The Evergreen State College where she studied Ornithology and Botany. Prior to that she studied Environmental Science at Western Washington University for two years and served two years as a political organizer for the Sierra Club in Arizona. Since, she has worked as a field biologist on a number of projects throughout the western United States. Her experience also includes working as a naturalist in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California teaching at Sempervirens Outdoor School. Agiabampo Estuary is deeply important to her, thus her pivotal role in founding Alamos Wildlands Alliance. Heather currently serves as the Executive Director of AWA.
Chris Baum (Vice-President and Director of Education) earned his dual Bachelor of Arts and Sciences from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, with an emphasis in field biology. He has worked as a biologist monitoring songbirds and as a naturalist for Sempervirens Outdoor School outside of Santa Cruz, California. As a founding member of Alamos Wildlands Alliance, he is dedicated to the preservation and conservation of all wild places and the restoration of altered ecosystems.
Adam Hannuksela (Director of Research) grew up throughout the Western U.S. , becoming interested in Natural History at a young age. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Evergreen State College and worked for various bird observatories and consulting firms as a field biologist. He has been living in the field and doing field work for the past six years in the American West and Northwest Mexico, focusing on songbirds in desert ecosystems. As research director, Adam heads up AWA’s MoSI station, bird and mammal surveys, field crews and other field projects. He also helps run the field station’s logistics.
Sallie Herman (Botanist & Station Manager) grew up in Washington and Oregon, where she was exposed to the natural world at a very young age. She earned a Master’s degree in Biology from Central Washington University and has worked as a botanist for various state and federal agencies. She is involved in the field station operations as well as being the station’s botanist.
Dr. Steven G. Herman is ultimately responsible for the establishment of AWA and serves on the Board of Directors. For three decades he has taught vertebrate zoology and natural history and introduced students to native wild landscapes throughout North and Central America. He continues to teach several courses at The Evergreen State College as a professor emeritus. His past and current research focuses on desert and shrubsteppe ecosystems, toxicology and conservation of raptors, and maintaining natural history and conservation as sciences in their own right.