Maine Audubon is pleased to announce the induction of seven new people to its Board of Trustees in 2025-26.
“Maine Audubon is thrilled and honored to have such dedicated, passionate, and qualified individuals serve on our board,” says Maine Audubon President Judy Camuso. “The Board of Trustees is critical to our success as an organization and we look forward to working with our new board members in the coming years.” These trustees join 19 other members of the board (find the full list here). The new trustees include:
Rob Bate moved to New York City shortly after graduating from college where he worked in construction in various positions. In 2007, he signed up for a bird walk sponsored by NYC Audubon (now NYC Bird Alliance) as a way to get out in nature. The rest is history! That walk sparked a passion for birds which led him to an interest in conservation. Rob joined the board of the Brooklyn BIrd Club and served as president there before joining the board of NYC Audubon, where he was Executive Vice President and an active member of Conservation and EDIA Committees. Rob and his wife Tracy Meade, both avid birders, moved full time to Maine in 2023.
Lene Campoli grew up in Appalachian coal country where she witnessed the stark environmental impacts of local mining firsthand, which sparked a lifelong commitment to protecting natural resources and critical habitats. Driven by this passion, she earned a B.S. from Penn State and an M.S. from the University of Virginia, and went on to have a career in multidisciplinary energy and environmental assessment. A transition to the Mid-Atlantic region solidified her focus on water quality protection where she balanced full-time work with representing her conservation council on the Audubon Naturalist Society (now Nature Forward).
Stacey Pazar Huth holds a doctorate in chemistry, and spent more than 30 years as a corporate leader and scientist. She led teams in the research and development of diagnostic products in both the human health and veterinary markets. Amongst her proudest professional contributions was leading a technical team at Abbott Laboratories for the development of the BinaxNOW COVID-19 Antigen Card. After retiring from corporate life, she founded Tanager Street, LLC, a scientific consulting firm that specializes in helping clients with their product development needs. Now an empty nester, she has returned to her lifelong love of birds and enjoys exploring Maine with her birding friends.
Eben Jose is passionate about helping individuals, families, and institutions achieve their goals through thoughtful, disciplined investment management and planning. He is a Senior Vice President, Client Advisor and Director of Private Markets, at Spinnaker Trust. Prior to that, he worked at Santander Bank’s U.S. headquarters in Boston, where he developed a strong foundation in investment analysis, portfolio management, and risk assessment. He and his family live in Falmouth.
Amy Lawrence recently retired from a 30-year career in wealth management and fiduciary services, providing investment management and consultative services to nonprofits’ planned giving programs, and serving as a trust officer for banks located in Boston, Mass., and Portland, Maine. She and her husband Stephen split their time between Portland and Bethel where they are actively involved in the community, working with a local land trust and a nonprofit dedicated to the development of trail networks for human-powered activities.
William H. Schlesinger is former president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, in Millbrook, NY, a position he had assumed after serving 27 years on the faculty of Duke University where was Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry. He is the author or coauthor of more than 250 scientific papers on subjects of environmental chemistry and global change and the widely-adopted textbook Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change (Academic Press, 4th ed. 2020). Schlesinger was among the first to quantify the amount of carbon held in soil organic matter globally, providing subsequent estimates of the role of soils and human impacts on forests and soils in global climate change. He was elected a member of The National Academy of Sciences in 2003, and was President of the Ecological Society of America for 2003-2004. He and his wife live on Cobscook Bay in Lubec, Maine.
Ann Thayer chose a career that allowed her to spend her work-life outdoors where she could observe the natural world around her. She spent over three decades working in the field of geology and environmental management in diverse areas such as the geologic and geochemical evaluations of contaminated waste sites for remediation and working with heavy industry to incorporate environmental obligations into facility operations. Her long time association with several Audubon chapters fed her curiosity about birds and birding and provided a complement to her interest in Maine’s diverse habitats. She contributes to the birding and geology sections of the Maine Master Naturalist program, the Maine Birding Atlas, and leads trips for groups where plants, an interesting rock, or landscape are all fair game. Although mostly retired from her professional career, Ann is currently employed providing logistical coordination and site management for a residential construction company.
