Ponsell Joyce G.

I met Joyce during our time with the Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research Oil Spill Response Team, and from the beginning, we were not only colleagues but kindred spirits. Her warmth, wisdom, and unwavering kindness stayed with me through every stage of my journey. When ERDG was just taking form, it was Joyce who gently suggested, "Perhaps you might consider protecting the horseshoe crab." From that one moment of insight and care, a global conservation movement was born.

Throughout ERDG´s existence, Joyce was not only a founding board member but a steady hand, a confidant, and a dear friend. Her quiet strength and grace helped shape the soul of our organization, and her legacy is woven into every step we take on behalf of the species she loved and the world she quietly made better.

I will miss her deeply. But I take comfort in knowing that her spirit continues in the lives she touched, the nature she protected, and the compassion she lived each day with. The world is a more gentle, beautiful place because she was here.

With deep gratitude and affection,
Glenn Gauvry