Staff
Dominick DellaSala, PhD
President and Chief Scientist
Dr. Dominick A. DellaSala is President and Chief Scientist of the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon and President of the Society for Conservation Biology, North America Section. 
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Dominick is an internationally renowned author of over 150 technical papers, including the award winning “Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World” (www.islandpress.org/dellasala). Dominick has given plenary and keynote talks ranging from academic conferences to the United Nations (Earth Summit II). He has appeared in National Geographic, Science Digest, Science Magazine, Time Magazine, Audubon Magazine, National Wildlife Magazine, High Country News, Terrain Magazine, NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, Jim Lehrer News Hour, CNN, MSNBC, “Living on Earth (NPR),” and several PBS wildlife documentaries. He has testified in congressional hearings in defense of the Endangered Species Act, roadless area conservation, national monument designations, forest protections, and climate change among others. For his efforts to help foster national roadless area conservation and support designation of new national monuments, he received conservation leadership awards from the World Wildlife Fund in 2000 and 2004, the Wilburforce Foundation in 2006, and was twice nominated for conservation awards for his work as a whistleblower while on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service spotted owl recovery team. His rainforest book received an academic excellence award in 2012 from Choice magazine, one of the nation's premier book review journals. Dominick co-founded the Geos Institute in July 2006. He is motivated by leaving a living planet for his daughter and all those to follow.
In addition to oversight of all organizational operations and fund-raising, Tonya has taken a lead role in developing the 
Randi leads the Geos Institute's efforts to educate lawmakers in Washington, D.C. office and directs all work related to governmental affairs for the organization. Prior to joining the Geos Institute, she served as Board President and then Executive Director of the American Lands Alliance. Randi comes to the Geos Institute with extensive experience in national campaigns, science-based public interest advocacy, and marketing. She has been a national leader in efforts to encourage appropriate management of natural resources and to protect 
Marni takes a lead role in developing and executing 
Brian Barr is an aquatic ecologist with over 16 years of experience on trout and salmon restoration in the Pacific and intermountain west. He holds a bachelor’s degree in zoology from Miami University and a master’s degree in fisheries and wildlife science from Virginia Tech. Over the past nine years, Brian has focused his attention on improving fish passage conditions in the Rogue and Klamath Rivers of southern Oregon and northern California, restoring river, floodplain, and streambank conditions, and assessing the effects of livestock grazing on creeks and springs in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Recently, he has turned his attention to the emerging impacts of climate change, how those impacts are likely to affect communities and natural resources, and what we can do to prepare ourselves and the resources we depend upon to withstand these effects. In his off time, Brian fishes, watches his daughter ride horses, and bites his fingernails during Virginia Tech football games.
Julie has been engaged in many different roles with nonprofit organizations in Southwest Oregon for the last 27 years. She served as a panelist at President Clinton's 1993 Forest Conference and was named Conservationist of the Year by Oregon Wild (1992) and Environmental Hero by the Wilderness Society (1998). In her current position at the the Geos Institute, Julie supports the development, conservation, and communication programs in a variety of capacities. She holds an M.A. degree from the University of Texas in Computer Science and Educational Psychology.
Jessica provides primary support to the the Geos Institute's Spatial Analysis Program with a focus on preparing
John brings to the Geos Institute 25 years of experience working for non-profit organizations in a variety of administrative and financial positions. He has served on the staff of other conservation and cultural heritage organizations and was instrumental in the formation of Rogue Environmental Inc., a group of supporters that provides office space to the Geos Institute at very reasonable rates. His broad range of administrative and accounting skills, along with his commitment to making the world a better place, make him a perfect complement to the rest of the staff. John received a B.A. in Political Science from Hanover College in Indiana, and furthered his post-graduate studies in accounting and non-profit administration at Southern Oregon University.
Keith is responsible for developing communications strategies and new projects for ClimateWise community involvement. Keith comes to Geos with an extensive background in NPR style broadcast-journalism and management (with a similar mission of building stronger, more resilient communities). He is the former host/producer of a live two-hour daily talk-radio program on Jefferson Public Radio (a network of stations in Oregon and California) where he produced more than 3000 guests (leading scientists, authors, and community leaders) for broadcast. Keith is a former news director at JPR in Ashland (OR), a program director at NPR station WTEB in New Bern (NC) and an assistant editor at the Charleston (SC) Business Journal. He was educated at Eckerd College in St. Pete, Florida and at San Francisco State University. Each July he cools off in Bandon and Coos Bay Oregon recording the Oregon Coast Music Festival Orchestra (for broadcast on JPR).