Who We Are

Board of Directors

Peter S. Tobias, Ph.D. Director. Former chair, San Diego County Orchid Society Conservation Committee. Associate Professor of Biochemistry, The Scripps Research Institute.

Ronald Kaufmann, Ph.D. Director. Chair, San Diego County Orchid Society Conservation Committee. Associate Professor of Marine Science and Environmental Studies, University of San Diego.

Steven Beckendorf, Ph.D. Director. Member, Orchid Specialist Group, IUCN. Member, American Orchid Society Conservation Committee. Board member, The Odontoglossum Alliance. Professor Emeritus of Genetics, University of California, Berkeley.

M. do Rosario de Almeida Braga, M.A. Director. President, Orchid Society of Rio de Janeiro (OrquidaRio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Harold Koopowitz, Ph.D. Advisor. Conservationist and Ecologist. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, The Orchid Digest.  Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine.