William ‘Bill’ Hammond Ph.D.

Bill is principal in Natural Context Consultant, Professor Emeritus, Florida Gulf Coast (retired) Resident of Lee County (59 years). He earned his Ph D at Simon Fraser University and hasbeen an Educator for 60+ years in Moravia, N.Y., Lee County Schools (33.5 years) and Founding Faculty FGCU (15+years). Taught Graduate programs at Simon Fraser university and Royal Roads University in British Columbia. His focus is Ecological & Marine Sciences, Business, Environmental Planning and Applied Creative Thinking (trainer for GE’s programs), and worked with more than 300 Federal, state and regional government agencies and not-for-profit organizations and agencies.

He’s worked in all 50 states, Canadian Provinces and Territories, USSR and 14 other foreign countries as well as holding leadership roles in numerous international, national, state and local organizations.  

Five Florida Governors have appointed him to State Committees and Boards including (South Florida Water Management Board ( 2 terms), State Environmental Education Advisory Councils (8 terms), NSF Systemic Change Science Advisory Council (Chair. K-12 Section),Babcock Ranch State Management Committee (2 terms)

Recipient of many national, state and local recognitions including the Whitehouse-Congressional Theodore Roosevelt Award for Service in Conservation to the Nation; Urban Land Institute Path-finder Award and numerous others.

Bill’s H.S. Environmental Education students successfully campaigned to purchase the Six Mile Cypress Slough, Matanzas Preserve, Manatee Park, Lee County Bald Eagle and Mangrove Protection ordinances  and many other initiatives and projects.