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Ted recently founded Grassroots Geography, a non-profit organization that develops simple, inexpensive GIS tools and works with grassroots environmental organizations to integrate these tools into their conservation, sustainability, and environmental-justice activities.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994 Ted received a Master&#8217;s at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he studied forest ecology and conservation biology. He received a PhD in Biological Sciences in 2001 at Stanford University. His dissertation research combined garden and computer-simulation studies to explain geographic distributions and growth strategies of plants in variable and changing climates. Ted has worked on rare-butterfly conservation at Stanford&#8217;s Center for Conservation Biology, urban forestry with the California Department of Forestry, and rainforest ecology in Sri Lanka with Yale&#8217;s Tropical Resources Institute. 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