Dr. Macedo is a landscape ecologist interested in understanding the causes of human-induced land change and its consequences for aquatic ecosystems. She combines remote sensing, field observations, and statistical models to examine how land use and land management influence the connectivity and ecological function of tropical streams at multiple scales. Her current research focuses on the land use dynamics and ecological tradeoffs associated with agricultural expansion and intensification in the Amazon. Dr. Macedo earned her M.Sc. in Sustainable Development & Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland and her Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, & Environmental Biology from Columbia University.

Dr. Coe is an earth system scientist who specializes in understanding how human land cover change and land management decisions affect the energy and water cycles, and ultimately feedback to regional climate. He is currently participating in projects based in the Brazilian Amazon and savanna environments. He leads field research programs to collect data on how expanding agriculture changes evaporation, soil moisture, river discharge, and biochemical cycles. He and his colleagues combine field data with satellite observations and earth system computer models to better understand the scale of historical and potential future human impacts on tropical climate and ecosystems and help develop mitigation strategies.  

Dr. Neill is an ecosystem ecologist who studies how changes to land use alter the structure and functioning of ecosystems. In the Amazon, he investigates how deforestation changes the way water and materials move from land to water and within the channels and streams and rivers and how the intensification of soybean and corn cropping alters runoff to streams and greenhouse gas emissions. Dr. Neill uses gauged catchments, natural abundance of stable isotopes and long-term vegetation plots to understand tropical ecosystem responses. In Massachusetts, where increases in residential development threaten estuaries and terrestrial ecosystems that contain high and unique biological diversity, Dr. Neill works with local conservation organizations to design improved methods of ecosystem conservation and restoration.

Dave McGlinchey is responsible for shaping WHRC’s message, and delivering the Center’s science to key decision-makers and the media. He is a journalist and lawyer, and before joining WHRC he worked on communications and government relations for global biotechnology company Novozymes. Prior to that he served as the director of communications and marketing for the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences. Dave is passionate about raising public awareness about climate change impacts and solutions and is the author of Final Flight: 10 Northeastern Birding Spots at Risk from Climate Change.