Our alumni work around the country and the world in a wide variety of jobs, from conservation science to education to urban planning. Linking them all is a deep commitment to helping the Earth's inhabitants — humans and other animals, plants, fungi, microbes — live together sustainably and in mutually beneficial ways. Click through career profiles with the gray arrow below to get an idea of where the Field Naturalist Program propels its graduates.

  • Charley with his camera looking in tall grass

    Charley Eiseman '06

    Charley is a consulting ecologist who conducts plant and wildlife surveys and natural resource inventories for various nonprofits, state agencies, and universities throughout New England. He is the lead author of the field guide Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates, which won a National Outdoor Book Award, the e-book Leafminers of North America, and the insect blog BugTracks. He has published nearly 40 scientific papers, including the description of over 60 new insect species. For many years he has co-taught an “Ecology through Animal Tracking” course and now teaches field seminars on insect tracks and sign at the Eagle Hill Institute in Maine.