Claire Martini was the AmeriCorps Citizen Science Volunteer Coordinator as well as the UPLIFT Coordinater for the Trust. She has a B.A. in Geology from Whitman College. After her first taste of the Trust’s varied work as a student in Whitman’s “Semester in the West” program—surveying beaver dams and aspen, and learning about energy on the Plateau—Claire couldn't wait to work with other volunteers. Although she is originally from the Pacific Northwest, Claire enjoys the Arizona sunshine, running through the ponderosas, and amateur bird-watching.