State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry - Environmental Leadership

Environmental Leadership

From soon after its founding, ESF affiliated individuals have been responsible for establishing and leading prominent scientific and advocacy organizations around the world focused on the environment. Others have provided leadership to governmental environmental agencies.

• Adirondack Council – Clarence Petty, '30, co-founder, 1975, director
• Adirondack Park Agency – Ross S. Whaley, former ESF President, chair, 2003–07
• Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks – Louis Marshall, President, ESF Board of Trustees, trustee; Paul Schaefer, Trustee and V.P. for 50 years
• Ecological Society of America – Dean William L. Bray, and Professor Charles C. Adams, co-founders, 1915
• Finger Lakes Land Trust – Summer 2011: Cornelius B. Murphy, Jr. named to Advisory Council along with Lynn Leopold, widow of A. Carl Leopold, Founding President
• National Parks Association – Bob Marshall, '24, board member, 1930s
• The Nature Conservancy – Dean William L. Bray, co-founder, 1950
• Onondaga Environmental Institute — Ed Michalenko, PhD '91, President
• Society of American Foresters – Ross S. Whaley, former ESF President, president, 1991
• Taiwan Environmental Action Network – Wen-ling Tu, MS '96, co-founder
• Union of Concerned Scientists – Howard "Bud" Ris, Jr., MLA '75, executive director, president, 1984-2003
• United States Society for Ecological Economics – Dr. Karin Limburg, ESF faculty member, president, 2006–07
• The Wilderness Society – Bob Marshall, '24, co-founder, 1935