Board of Directors - Monarch Butterfly Fund

Alfonso Alonso

Alfonso Alonso, Managing Director Field Programs, CCES (Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability), Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park is a conservation biologist that designs, implements, and manages research and conservation…

Chip Taylor

Chip Taylor Orley R. “Chip” Taylor, Founder and Director of Monarch Watch; Professor Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Trained as an insect ecologist, Chip Taylor has published papers on species assemblages, hybridization, reproductive…

Don Davis

As a Citizen Scientist, Don Davis has been involved in a wide range of conservation, scientific and educational projects, beginning in 1968 as a “Research Associate” with Dr. Fred Urquhart’s tagging program. The subsequent opening of the Monarca Travelling Exhibit in Ottawa…

Eli Moreno

Eli Moreno has worked with community based non-profits for the last 20 years and is committed to the improvement of science education and the protection of the environment in the developing world. He has also been involved with several humanitarian relief efforts in…

Ernest Williams

Ernest Williams is Professor of Biology at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. As a butterfly ecologist for more than 30 years, he has studied the population biology and conservation of several different butterfly species, including monarchs at their Mexican overwintering colonies…

Gail Morris

Gail Morris is a naturalist and Citizen Scientist. She received her B.S. in Psychology from Michigan State University and her M.A. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. A life-long gardener, Gail became a Master Gardener in 1995 and completed the Desert Gardening Mastership…

Karen Oberhauser

Karen Oberhauser Director, Monarchs in the Classroom Program; Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota; Past-President, Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation. Karen Oberhauser has been studying monarch butterflies since 1984…

Lincoln Brower

Lincoln Brower first began studying monarch butterfly biology in 1954 when he was a graduate student at Yale University. He currently is Distinguished Service Professor of Zoology Emeritus at the University of Florida and Research Professor of Biology at Sweet Briar College…

M. Isabel Ramirez

M. Isabel Ramirez is Research-Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental (CIGA), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM). She is especially interested in the topics of landscape ecology. She has published work on vegetation dynamics, microclimatology…

Pablo Jaramillo Lopez

Pablo Jaramillo Lopez holds an undergraduate degree in Agriculture and Animal Husbandry from the Army Polytechnic School in Quito, Ecuador and a Doctorate in Biology from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center…