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Appendix B: 2001-2002 Policy Committee Members
Michael O'Connell - Chair
Mike is currently Senior Advisor for Science and Policy for The Nature Conservancy of California. His areas of expertise are endangered species policy, regional habitat conservation planning, implementing reserve design strategies, and public funding of conservation. He has worked in government, private consulting and the non-profit sector. Mike has lengthy practical experience with and has published extensively on working with private landowners on conservation issues and on the policy and science of habitat conservation planning. He has been active in the Society for Conservation Biology since 1990 and has chaired the Policy Committee since 1998-99.
Tracy Dobson
A lawyer, Tracy is a professor of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. Her policy experience includes working with committees of the Michigan Legislature on environmental and consumer legislation as the Legal Director of the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan and the Advocacy Director of the Michigan Consumer's Council and serving as the first chair of the East Lansing Commission on the Environment. She led the MSU delegations to the Earth Summit in Rio and the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing. More recently, as a faculty member, she has worked with government officials and aid organizations to draft environmental legislation in the African nations of Malawi and Uganda. Her research in this area is complemented by teaching environmental law and policy for graduate students as well as gender and environment for both grads and undergrads at MSU.
Joseph Dudley
Joe is currently a Diplomacy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, working with USAID Bureau for Asia & the Near East. He has lengthy experience in the field of wildlife/natural resources conservation and management, including 8 years in sub-Saharan Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer and wildlife researcher. Joe is academically affiliated as a Research Associate of the Institute of Arctic Biology, the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Alaska Museum. He also served with the Environmental Division of the U.S. Air Force, where he represented the Service on the DOD Natural Resources Council, CEQ Coastal America, US Man & Biosphere Program, and the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Committee.
Leah Gerber
Leah is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and recently appointed Assistant Professor of Conservation Biology at Arizona State University. Leah's research focuses on connecting biological uncertainty to decision-making in conservation biology. Most recently she has focused on the connection between science and policy in endangered species recovery and marine reserve design. She is collaborating with a group of scientists and environmental lawyers to improve the use of science in marine conservation law, focusing particularly on institutional reform. Previous policy experience includes working with the National Marine Fisheries Service to develop criteria for classifying marine mammals under the Endangered Species Act.
Caldwell Hahn
Caldwell is a research biologist at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, MD, and Research Associate with the University of Maryland and Smithsonian Institution. Her principal research focus is behavior, ecology and management of the parasitic brown-headed cowbird. She is co-chair of the North American Cowbird Advisory Council, advising federal and state agencies as well as private landowners on criteria for starting and running control programs. Previously she worked on international environmental issues in Latin America and Asia for the World Wildlife Fund, the Agency for International Development, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Martin Main
Martin is a Wildlife Ecologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, Southwest Florida Research & Education Center. Previous policy experience includes working for the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment as a Knauss Fellow of National Marine Policy. Current conservation policy activities include investigating opportunities for developing policies that promote incentive-based conservation on private lands.
Barry Noon
Barry is Professor of Wildlife in the Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology at Colorado State University, teaching senior level courses on wildlife biology and ecosystem management. His research and policy experience include sustainable forestry in the Pacific Northwest, particularly relating to the life history and population dynamics of spotted owls. Barry has been Supervisory Research Ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service Redwood Sciences Laboratory and a Research Biologist at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. He served as Chief Scientist for the National Biological Service and has been a key figure on numerous panels on ecosystem management and conservation biology, most recently on a national committee of scientists appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture. He is an elected fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union, served on the Board of Governors of SCB, and was Associate Editor for the Journal of Wildlife Management.
Jamie Reaser
Jamie is the Assistant Director for International Policy, Science, and Cooperation with the National Invasive Species Council. Most recently, she served as a senior scientist and lead negotiator on coral reef, amphibian decline, and invasive species issues for the U.S. Department of State. Her professional training is in the fields of conservation biology and communication psychology. She is particularly interested in the "human dimensions" of conservation biology and increasing the capacity of scientists to communicate with policy makers. She currently sits on the Executive Board of the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) and the Advisory Committee to the Convention on Biological Diversity's Clearing-House Mechanism.
Walter Reid
Walter is Director of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, an international process designed to meet policy-maker's needs for "state of the art" scientific information about how changes in the world's ecosystem will affect their ability to meet human demands for food, clean water, health, biodiversity and other ecosystem goods and services. He has conducted scientific and policy research in the fields of biodiversity conservation, climate change, energy policy, sustainable agriculture, and biotechnology. For 6 years, he was Vice President for Program at the World Resources Institute. Prior to that, he was a Senior Associate in the Biological Resources Program at WRI, and a Gilbert White Fellow with Resources for the Future.
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