Martha Groom
Co-Lead & Curriculum Design Lead
2020 Instructional Staff
Previous Instructional Staff
DDCSP@UW is grateful to every staff member who has shaped and impacted the work we do today.
Martha Groom is a long-term resident of western Washington, often a caregiver as a mother, spouse and daughter, and a professor of biodiversity conservation at the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW Bothell and the College of the Environment at the UW. Martha is one of the co-founders of DDCSP@UW, and serves as an anchor for all the cohorts of conservation scholars. She is active in the education and equity, inclusion and diversity committees of the Society for Conservation Biology. Martha is the lead author and editor of the text Principles of Conservation Biology, 2006, and is fascinated by the complexities of conservation education and mentorship in environmental studies. In addition to education research, she collaborates in landscape-scale studies of sustainability of coffee production and urban community gardens, and seeks additional means to simultaneously improve wildlife populations and human welfare. She is currently working on developing open-access curricula for teaching about energy justice in the age of climate change, and about biocultural conservation based on her years of teaching and experiences with DDCSP.
