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A California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation

Directors

Graeme Woodhouse Chairman
Thomas Lamb
Mike Dickison
Geoff Turnbull

Officers

Graeme Woodhouse  President
Thomas Lamb  Secretary
and Chief Financial Officer

Thomas Lamb

Thomas has been involved with the visual arts and documenting the environment for thirty years.  He has been on the Board of Directors since 1984, and is Vice-President of the United States - China Environmental Fund in Beijing, Peoples Republic of China, and Madison, Wisconsin.

He was a general partner (1984-96) and is currently a consulting partner with the planning and landscape architectural firm, The SWA Group in Laguna Beach, California.

His photography is focused on landscape architecture, ecosystems, and topography of natural, urban and cultural communities around the world. The emphasis of activities of the Lamb Studio in Laguna Beach is with regional and global photographic and design projects which range from photography and design, to conservation studies, taking Tom from Southern California, to the Amazon River, the Himalayas, West Africa and throughout China.

From 1988 to 1994 Tom was the Chairperson of EOS Institute in Laguna Beach.  He has been an instructor of photography at Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California since 1986, and was Associate Professor of Photography and Department Chair at Colorado Mountain College in Leadville, Colorado from 1980 until 1984.  He received his Master's degree and held Teaching Fellowships at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island from 1978 to 1980.

Mike Dickison

Mike was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, and studied at Canterbury and Victoria Universities.  He worked as an assistant curator at Te Papa / the Museum of New Zealand in Wellington, and completed his PhD in biology in 2007 at Duke University, North Carolina.  His research area is the skeletal changes that occur as flightless birds increase in size, and whether there is a size constraint that prevented giant flightless birds from growing even larger.

He maintains the Moa Pages / Nga Wharangi Moa at www.duke.edu/~mrd6/moa, and fields enquiries about moa from schoolchildren, scientists, and documentary makers all over the world.  As well as flightless birds, Mike has a background in desktop publishing, and has taught typography at Whitireia Polytechnic.  His favorite New Zealand nature experience was being bitten by a tuatara on Stephens Island.

Geoff Turnbull

Geoff grew up under the botanical wing of his father, Alastair Turnbull, who is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's leading authorities on rare and endangered native plants, and is co-owner of Talisman Nurseries Limited in Otaki.  Geoff was born and raised in Whenuapai, Auckland where he had a keen affiliation with New Zealand's indigenous fauna and flora, kayaking the upper reaches of the Waitemata Harbor, and visiting outer islands and reserves in the North Island.  He gained a Diploma of Horticulture and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (honours) from Lincoln University, Canterbury in 1992.

Geoff is an associate of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects.  Geoff worked for seven years in Wellington with Frank Boffa at Boffa Miskell Ltd, a landscape and urban design, environmental planning, and ecology consulting firm, before moving to the United States.

In 1999 he joined the Laguna Beach, California office of SWA Group, where he is a senior designer and landscape architect.  He has extensive experience in large multi-disciplinary projects in New Zealand, Southeast Asia, China and the United States.  Geoff played a pivotal role in the master planning of Shady Canyon Residential and Golf Preserve in Irvine, successfully using a drought tolerant native Californian plant palette for the first time in Orange County.

Graeme Woodhouse

Graeme is president and chairs Terra Nature Fund and TerraNature Trust, managing both organizations in a full-time capacity.  He took primary responsibility for establishing the two entities.  Born and raised in Auckland and Hamilton, Graeme became a Registered Surveyor with the Survey Board of New Zealand in 1968.  After planning and engineering various land development projects at the Vail ski resort in Colorado, he was the planner from 1975 until 1977 for Beaver Creek, the second resort developed by Vail Associates Inc.

As founding partner of Woodhouse & Garry CHS (1979-92), a town planning and architectural practice in Vail and Denver, Colorado, and San Francisco, his work included urban design plans for six alpine destination resort villages. Graeme prepared a master plan for a new town for 120,000 people covering an area of 16,000 acres for the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners.

In more recent horticulturally oriented work, as president of Fort Mason Community Garden Inc during 1997 and 1998, he was responsible for transforming nursery operations, initiating native plant propagation and planting, organising composting operations, and incorporating windbreak planting and water conservation measures. Graeme received the Highest Achievement Award for Community Organizing in 1999, for his work as a neighborhood coordinator with Friends of the Urban Forest, a nonprofit organisation responsible for planting and maintaining most of San Francisco's street trees.