Holly Ernest was named as the holder of the Wyoming Excellence Chair in Disease Ecology at the University of Wyoming. She was a professor of wildlife genetics and population health at the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Ernest is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She holds a master’s degree and a doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Ohio State University. She also earned a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California, Davis.
H. Jo Albers was named to the Knobloch Wyoming Excellence Chair for Conservation Economics and Finance. She was a professor in the department of forest ecosystems and society at Oregon State University. She recently completed a term in Tanzania as a Fulbright Scholar.
Dr. Albers is a graduate of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where she majored in geology and economics. She earned a master’s degree in environmental studies at Yale University and a Ph.D. in natural resource and environmental economics at the University of California, Berkeley.