Elizabeth Terk

Elizabeth Terk is the Director of Conservation Science and Planning (CSP) for TNC’s Micronesia Program. She has worked for TNC since 2013 and was initially hired as the Protected Area Advisor for Micronesia. She is originally from New York City but has called Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia home for almost 15 years. She has worked in conservation in Micronesia since 2007. First as the Deputy Director of the Conservation Society of Pohnpei and then as the Conservation Program Manager for the Micronesia Conservation Trust. She holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her main areas of focus are designing resilient marine protected area networks to achieve fisheries management objectives, and adaption to climate change by providing community members and resource managers with the capacity to implement and manage protected areas. She’s provided conservation planning support using the Open Standards across Micronesia and has helped develop communality-based climate change adaptation planning tools for the region.