Name Erin Myers | ||
Erin C. Myers Madeira is the former captain of the sailing vessel Makulu II and led a 3-year educational expedition and global circumnavigation. She currently specializes in the role of forests in mitigating climate change. She is a former editor for Blue Water Sailing magazine and contributor to Soundings magazine. She is a graduate of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Dartmouth College.
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Life and education
Erin Chamberlin Myers was born on December 2, 1977 to Mary Anne Hinckley Myers and F. Leonard Myers. She was raised in Norwood, Massachusetts with her twin brother, Benjamin T. Myers, and younger brother, Michael H. B. Myers. In 1996, she graduated valedictorian from Norwood High School and went on to pursue a degree in geography from Dartmouth College, where she was active on the Dartmouth College sailing team, becoming captain and earning recognition as an Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association All-American for three years in a row. She graduated Cum Laude in 2000. In 2008 Erin completed a master's degree at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management [1] at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
In 2008 Erin married Josh Madeira.
She also has a step mother, Tammy McMichael, and three younger step sisters, Alexandria, Olivia and Madeline Hallam.
Sailing career
Erin learned to sail in a 12' bullseye sailboat during summers in Southwest Harbor, Maine, on Mount Desert Island. She worked on a commercial schooner, the Rachel B. Jackson, and later on the SSV Westward, SSV Corwith Cramer, and SSV Tole Mour.
Circumnavigation
In 2001, she joined Heather Halstead at the educational non-profit Reach the World, which produces online educational materials based on real-world expeditions. As Captain and Expedition Leader, Erin led the 2001-2004 Voyage of Makulu, the flagship activity of Reach the World. The expedition members researched environmental science, geography, and livelihood topics and created curricular content for partner classrooms in the United States. The voyage began and ended in New York city and followed the standard antipodal circumnavigation route going westwards, visiting such areas as the Caribbean Islands, the Panama Canal, the Galapagos Islands, Polynesia, Australia, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean Sea, Morocco, West Africa, the Cape Verde Islands, and Bermuda.
After finishing her circumnavigation, Erin worked as an editor and writer for Blue Water Sailing magazine.
Forestry and climate change career
Erin is currently a U.S. Fulbright Fellow in Indonesia researching the development of activities to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation ("REDD"). In 2007-2008, she worked with Resources for the Future, helping the organization build its Forest Carbon Initiative. She has published on the role of forest carbon in mainstream climate change policies and delivered invited presentations on the topic.