Peter Cowan

Peter Cowan's work experience includes serving as the Director of Conservation Science at Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) since February 2018. Prior to that, they were a Visiting Fellow at the American Meteorological Society's Policy Program from June 2013 to December 2015. Peter also worked as a Consultant and Science and Technology Fellow at the California State Senate from December 2010 to November 2012 and December 2010 to November 2011, respectively. Before that, Peter was a Graduate Student Instructor at UC Berkeley from August 2009 to June 2010. Peter also served as a National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellow at Adams Middle School in Richmond, CA from September 2007 to June 2009. Additionally, Peter was a Summer of Code Student at Google in May 2008. Peter began their career as a Graduate Student Instructor at UC Berkeley from August 2005 to June 2007.

Peter Cowan earned a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Kalamazoo College between 1998 and 2002. Peter then went on to obtain a Master's degree in Biology from Stanford University from 2003 to 2005. Following this, Peter pursued a PhD in Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, which they completed between 2005 and 2010.