David W. Gregg is executive director of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey, an organization that engages those knowledgeable about Rhode Island's animals, plants, and natural communities with each other and with those who can use that knowledge for research, education, and conservation. The Rhode Island Natural History Survey, founded in 1994, is an independent non-profit that manages data documenting the state’s species and natural communities, publishes books and articles, and hosts public events, including the annual Rhode Island BioBlitz.Before coming to the Survey, David directed the nation's oldest philatelic museum, the Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History and was associate curator and project manager at Brown University's Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. By training, David is an archaeologist and has excavated in Britain, Italy, Rhode Island, and Alaska. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brown University. David Gregg is a Senior Fellow of the Coastal Institute at the University of Rhode Island and has been a Leadership Fellow and Mentor in the Rhode Island Foundation's Initiative for Non-profit Excellence. David has hosted documentary videos and published on environmental conservation, education, science communication, and museum studies, as well as taught at Brown Univeristy and Regis College. His areas of natural historical expertise include insects, invasive species, and habitat restoration and management.David Gregg is on the board of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Assoc., which manages Emerson's home in Concord, Mass., on the Collection Committee of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and a trustee of the Michael Paine Trust, a foundation that supports environmental research and land stewardship around Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.
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