ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY - Key Persons

Carol specializes in linkage among science, planning and policy. She works on internal strategy teams and with outside organizations and agencies to develop holistic approaches that will be useful to implementors and decision makers. She is a DRWI Initiative Steward.

Christopher Crockett

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Member of the Board
Chief Environmental, Safety, and Sustainability Officer, Essential Utilities, Inc

David E. Griffith - Chairman

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Chairman of the Board

Emma Trapp

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Event Sales & Operations Manager

Erica Carpenter

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Member of the Board
Director, Circulating Tumor Material Laboratory and Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Ewell Sale Stewart

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Library & Academy

Gerald B. Rorer

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Member of the Board
Retired

Greg Rigdon

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Member of the Board
President, Content Acquisition, Comcast

Jacquie Genovesi

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Executive Director, Center for STEAM Equity

Jana Stec

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Prospect Management and Analytics Associate

Jason Friedland

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Member of the Board
Director of Operations and Investments, Iron Stone Real Estate

Jean M. Hacherl

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Member of the Board
Executive Director, New Product Commercialization, Organon

Jeffrey A. Beachell

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Member of the Board

Jeffrey Morgan du Pont Nielsen

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Member of the Board
Retired, Former CEO & President Berks Products Corporation

John F. Smith III

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Member of the Board
of Counsel, Reed Smith LLP

Joshua C. Anthony

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Member of the Board
Founder and CEO, Nlumn

Julia Duriske

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Data Scientist

Performs database management, GIS analyses and generates digital communications products.

Kaitlin Gillin

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Director of Member Engagement

Karin LoVullo

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Database Manager

Kate Conklin Lane

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Director of Events and Operations

Kathryn Christopher

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Science Communication Manager

Kevin Kowalick

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Member of the Board
Vice President, Strategy, Media & Entertainment, TransUnion

Kimberly Reynolds

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Vice President, Chief Advancement Officer

Latasha D. Harling

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Member of the Board
CCP, SHRM - SCP, Chief People and Culture Officer, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Lin Perez

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Member of the Core Team
Software Developer
Environmental Data Science Section Leader

Lin leads geospatial analysis and development of mapping applications to help guide and quantify impact of preservation and restoration investments made within the DRWI. Their goal is to make complex science accessible to investors and stakeholders making on the ground decisions within the Delaware River Watershed. Lin leads the Environmental Data Science (EDS) Section which specializes in watershed modeling, Application Program Interface (API) development, traditional geospatial analysis, and database management for all DRWI data. Lin co-chairs the DRWI Technical User Group, a cohort of modelers, data scientists, researchers, software developers and GIS professionals that guide and synchronize DRWI technical products and research. Leads development and stakeholder adoption of project and metric tracking applications.

Linda Hall

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Library

Lisa Miller - CFO, COO

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Chief Financial Officer
Chief Operating Officer

Malcolm Newman

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Environmental Scientist

Marc E. Gold

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Member of the Board

Mariangeles Arce H

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Executive Director, Center for Systematic Biology and Evolution

Marina McDougall

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Vice President, Experience and Engagement

Maureen Craig

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Vice Chair of the Board

Maurice Baynard

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Vice President, Community Learning

Michael Campagna

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Data Scientist

Specializes in hydrologic modeling, API development, database management and geospatial analysis.

Michael K. Tucker

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Member of the Board
Chief Legal, Risk & Compliance Officer, General Counsel, Signant Health

Michael Kaplan

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Treasurer of the Board

Ninette L. Bennett

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WINS Alumnae Manager

Paul Kiry

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Nutrient Lab Manager

Rebecca Rhynhart

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Member of the Board
Senior Vice President for Finance, Chief Financial Officer, Drexel University

Robert M. Peck

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Key Staff Member
Senior Fellow
Curator
Senior Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences

Robert McCracken Peck, senior fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, is a writer, naturalist, and historian who has traveled extensively in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. He served as special assistant to the Academy's president and director of the Academy's natural history museum before being named "Fellow of the Academy" in 1983. In 2000 he assumed additional responsibilities as the Academy's curator of art and artifacts and editor of scientific publications. From 2003-2007 he served as librarian of the Academy. In 2003 he was named senior fellow of the Academy. Mr. Peck is the author of The Natural History of Edward Lear (2016), A Celebration of Birds: The Life and Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1982), Headhunters and Hummingbirds: An Expedition into Ecuador (1987), and William Bartram's Travels (1980), and co-author of All In The Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (2008) and A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science (2012). He has written for a wide range of popular and scholarly magazines and newspapers, including Nature, Audubon, National Wildlife, International Wildlife, Arts, Antiques, Image, Terr a, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The New York Times. In 1990 he authored Land of the Eagle: A Natural History of North America, the companion volume to an eight-part BBC/PBS television series of the same title, which deals with the discovery and exploration of America from a natural history point of view. Within weeks of its appearance in Great Britain, Mr. Peck's book went onto the U.K. Best-Seller List, where it remained for nine weeks (reaching the #3 slot in April 1990). The German edition, Im Land Des Adlers (1992) also achieved best-seller status. It was selected by The New York Times as one of the best science books of the year. Mr. Peck's book, A Glorious Enterprise (co-authored with Patricia Tyson Stroud), was nominated for several awards in the history of science. An active member of the Explorers Club (which has honored him with its Explorers Award and its "Medal for Integrity and Courage"), Mr. Peck has developed a special interest in the history of exploration, retracing the travel routes of a number of 18th- and 19th-century naturalists, including William Bartram, John James Audubon, Henry David Thoreau, Alexander Von Humboldt, John Burroughs, and John Muir. He has served as a natural history consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Princeton University Library, Readers Digest Books, David Attenborough, and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). In 1989 a new species of South American frog (one of three new species he discovered during an expedition to Ecuador) was named in his honor. In 1991 Mr. Peck was honored by the Academy of Natural Sciences' Richard Hopper Day Medal for his work in interpreting natural history to the public. (Other recipients of the medal have included Jacques Piccard, Louis Leakey, Ruth Patrick, David Attenborough, Lewis Thomas, Gerald Durrell, Stephen Ambrose, and Sylvia Earle.) As the Eleanor Garvey fellow in printing and graphic arts at Harvard University's Houghton Library and as a fellow of the Yale Center for British Art, Mr. Peck has pursued research on the 19th century naturalist, writer, and artist Edward Lear. In 2012 he guest curated a bicentennial exhibition on Lear for Houghton Library. Mr. Peck has traveled widely on behalf of the Academy of Natural Sciences, accompanying research expeditions in Nepal (1983), Ecuador (1984, 1992, and 1998), Venezuela (1985 and 1987), South Africa (1993), Botswana, (1993), Namibia (1993), Siberia (1994), Guyana (1997), and Mongolia (seven expeditions, 1994-2011). In recognition of his deep knowledge of the cultural and natural history of Mongolia, Mr. Peck was invited by President George W. Bush to represent the United States at ceremonies marking Mongolia's 800th birthday in Ulaanbaatar in July 2006. The presidential delegation consisted of Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns, Mrs. Johanns, and Mr. Peck. His photographs have been published in books, journals, and magazines and exhibited in museums across the U.S. His one-man photographic exhibition documenting nomadic life in Central Asia has been shown at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the American Museum of Natural History, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Mongolian Embassy, Washington, D.C. From 1999-2000 he assisted the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, with the national traveling exhibition on John James Audubon in the West and contributed a chapter to the catalog/book that accompanied the exhibition. In 2007 he was a consultant for and commentator on an American Masters documentary entitled "John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature" for PBS. In 2001 Mr. Peck served as historian for a retracing of Edward Harriman's 1899 expedition to Alaska organized by the Clark Science Center at Smith College and as a commentator for the two-hour documentary film that was made about it. "The Harriman Expedition Retraced" was broadcast on PBS in 2004. Mr. Peck has been honored with Philadelphia's Wyck-Strickland Award for outstanding contributions to the cultural life of Philadelphia. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Delaware. Mr. Peck has been honored with the Sarah Chapman Francis Medal for environmental writing by the Garden Club of America (2015) and the David S. Ingalls, Jr Award for Excellence, Cleveland Museum of Natural History. (Previous recipients have included: Stephen Jay Gould, Roger Tory Peterson, Edward O. Wilson, Roger Conant, Jane Goodall, and Peter Raven) (2018). In 2012 he was honored with a Doctor of Humane Letters degree by the University of Delaware. A member of The Explorers Club since 1983, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 2007 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022. He was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome in 2014, 2017, and 2023. Robert McCracken Peck, curator of art and artifacts and senior fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, is a writer, naturalist, and historian who has traveled extensively in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Mr. Peck is the author of Specimens of Hair: the Curious Collection of Peter A Browne (2018),The Natural History of Edward Lear (2016), A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science (2012), with co-author Patricia Tyson Stroud; Land of the Eagle: A Natural History of North America (1990); Headhunters and Hummingbirds: An Expedition into Ecuador (1987); A Celebration of Birds: The Life and Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1982); and co-author of All In The Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (2008). He has also written for newspapers and a wide range of popular and scholarly publications. Mr. Peck has served as a guest curator for and consultant to museums and libraries in the U.S. and has lectured widely at home and abroad. He has also provided content and commentary for television, radio, and film documentaries on topics ranging from the history of science to the history of art. Mr. Peck has been honored by the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Explorers Club, and other organizations for his contributions to exploration and the interpretation of natural history through his many lectures and publications. In 2007, the U.S. Department of State and the White House chose him to represent the United States at Mongolia's 800th birthday celebration.

Roland Wall

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Member of the Core Team
Director, Patrick Center for Environmental Research
Director, Patrick Center for Environmental Research and Delaware River Watershed Initiative

Roland supervises the Academy's DRWI Team, oversees strategic direction and project planning, liaises with senior Academy management and the William Penn Foundation.