A Family Affair

The Raincoast Conservation Foundation staff is a tightly-knit group of people. But for Raincoast biologists Andy Rosenberger and Adrianne Jarvela Rosenberger it’s literally a family affair.  In addition to their work as biologists for Raincoast’s wild salmon and marine conservation programs, this husband and wife team have taken on two other important roles for the organization; Andy serves as Raincoast’s GIS (Geographical Information Systems) technician and Adrianne handles our donor stewardship duties. Proving the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, their young son Finn is already showing a fascination with the ocean and predictions are he’s a lock as a future marine biologist for Raincoast.

A version of this article was first published in the Seaside Times January 2012 Issue.

 

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Raincoast’s in-house scientists, collaborating graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professors make us unique among conservation groups. We work with First Nations, academic institutions, government, and other NGOs to build support and inform decisions that protect aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and the wildlife that depend on them. We conduct ethically applied, process-oriented, and hypothesis-driven research that has immediate and relevant utility for conservation deliberations and the collective body of scientific knowledge.

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Coastal wolf with a salmon in its month.
Photo by Dene Rossouw.