Dolores Wesson
Environmental Protection Agency
Biographical Sketch: Maria Dolores Wesson’s interests are in international environmental cooperation and capacity building, the application of science to conservation and environmental policy, and mitigation and adaptation strategies to our changing climate--with a focus on water, and aquatic and marine resource conservation and management. Dolores now works for the US Environmental Protection Agency in the Office of Water, Washington DC. In prior positions she worked at: the Commission on Environmental Cooperation, EPA, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an international foundation, and the US House of Representatives.
She has served on several advisory boards and committees for federal agencies and nonprofit organizations in Western states and Mexico. Currently she serves on the board of the Pacific Rivers Council and Eco-Alianza de Loreto.
Dolores is a graduate of the University of California San Diego’s Warren College, and the University of Washington’s School of Marine Affairs, College of Ocean and Fisheries Science. She has worked and traveled extensively throughout North America and is fluent in English, Spanish and French.
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The Big Bend-Rio Bravo Initiative: Trans-boundary Landscape Conservation in the Chihuahuan Desert