Who We Are

Peter S. Tobias, Ph.D. Director. Formerly chair of the San Diego County Orchid Society Conservation Committee. Associate Professor of Biochemistry, The Scripps Research Institute.

Ronald Kaufmann, Ph.D. Director. Chair, San Diego County Orchid Society Conservation Committee. Associate Professor of Marine Science and Environmental Studies, University of San Diego.

Steven Beckendorf, Ph.D. Director. Member, Orchid Specialist Group, IUCN. Member, American Orchid Society Conservation Committee. Board member, The Odontoglossum Alliance. Professor Emeritus of Genetics, University of California, Berkeley.

M.do Rosario de Almeida Braga, M.A., Director. President, Orchid Society of Rio de Janeiro (OrquidaRio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Meg Lowman, Ph.D. Scientific Advisory Board. Canopy walk builder and winner of the Eugene Odum Award from the Ecological Society of America. Director of Environmental Initiatives and Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies, New College of Florida, Sarasota.

Harold Koopowitz, Ph.D. Scientific Advisory Board. Conservationist and Ecologist. Editor-in-Chief, The Orchid Digest.  Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine.