Brendan Havenar-Daughton was born and raised in Oakland, California
where he recieved a public school education from the Health Academy at Oakland Technical
High School. He recently graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with
a BA in Environmental Studies. Brendan was an intern for the California State Park Service
on a coastal restoration project at Wilder Ranch State Park. He has traveled to South
America as part of a research expedition team, which conducted population and behavioral
studies of the endangered Andean deer (Huemul). He was an intern with the Community
Agroecoloy Network, where he learned about the global coffee market and international trade.
This experience led to Brendan's decision to travel to Costa Rica to work with coffee farm
ers who were transitioning to organic production. For the past 2 years he has been involved
with the community of Agua Buena, where he now lives.
Eliot Logan-Hines graduated in 2004 with a BA in Environmental
Philosophy from The Evergreen State College with an emphasis on Latin American history,
economics, and literature. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Eliot graduated Westlake High
School as a National Hispanic Merit Scholar (2001). He was introduced at a young age to
local environmental issues concerning the Edwards Aquifer and the threat of suburban sprawl
and development. While in college, he was part of a research team in Patagonia conducting
a biological field study on the endangered huemul. While he was there, he became interested
in the environmental consequences of economic development in Latin America. When he
returned to the United States he created an independent study to travel across the western
states to interview people about their relationship to the environment. He is a trained
Wilderness First Responder and is completing his Wilderness Leadership Certification.
Jeff Dingman bio coming soon...
FINCA RESEARCHERS
Emily Morrison is from West Hartford, Connecticut and graduated from Clark
University (Worcester, MA) in 2001 with a BA in Biology and Geography.
During college, she studied tropical ecology and tropical forest restoration
and management in North Queensland, Australia. After graduation, she worked
as a research assistant studying birds in Denali National Park, Alaska and
for Point Reyes Bird Observatory in California. In 2005 she completed her MS
in biology from the University of Kentucky. She entered the doctoral program
in Zoology at Michigan State University in the fall of 2005. Her research
project will focus on the how bird communities respond to and utilize
tropical forest restoration sites. She has begun monitoring the bird communities
of our Finca. This research will serve as an indicator to the success our reforestation
and restoration projects.
Brendan and Eliot speak on why Finca Project was founded.
