Name and email

Office

Organization Affiliation

Country

Stephen Awoyemi

Communications team

Tropical Conservancy

Nigeria

Tom Baugh

President 

Green Institute (www.greeninstitute.net)

USA

Nic DeGama-Blanchet

Treasurer

Nature Conservancy of Canada

Canada

Walt Foster

President-Elect

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

USA

Linda Whittaker

Communications team

Nature and Parks Authority

Israel

Maiken Winter

Program team

Lab of ornithology, Cornell University

USA

Kyle Van Houtan

Exofficio Board Member

Emory University

USA

Alisse Garner Metge

Exofficio Board Member

Independent researcher

USA

Stephen Awoyemi is a zoologist and graduate of University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He serves as African Coordinator for Tropical Conservancy, a registered charitable scientific organization based in Ottawa, Canada and publishers of the Biodiversity Journal. He also volunteers in several capacities with the Africa Section of the SCB.  Stephen lives in Benin City, Nigeria.

Tom Baugh, a Fellow with the Green Institute , has 30 years experience in science information, natural resource management, and conservation biology with two federal agencies and one university,   He is also a multidisciplinary professional with graduate education and degrees in biology/ecology and religion/theology and an interdisciplinary approach to the field of ecological theology. In addition to the Society for Conservation Biology, he is a member of the American Institute of Biological Sciences,  the American Academy of Religion, and the Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. In addition, Tom is a member of the Commission on Ecosystems Management and the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union (IUCN).

Nic DeGama-Blanchet is the Manager, Science and Conservation Planning, for the Alberta Region of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. He is a multidisciplinary professional with graduate education in anthropology, ecology and conservation biology. In addition to the Society for Conservation Biology, he is a member of the Alberta Society for Professional Biologists and serves on the Alberta board of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan and the Alberta Burrowing Owl Recovery Team.

Walt Foster is an ecologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has degrees in marine biology and ecology and received extensive training in meteorology and climatology during 9 years as a flight forecaster in the Navy. He was instrumental in the development of GIS and remote sensing capabilities in EPA. He spent most of the 90s managing environmental projects in Poland, the Baltic States and Russia and currently serves as the Environmental Assessment Team Leader in EPA's Regional Office in Kansas City. He is also a member of the Ecological Society of America and the International Association for Landscape Ecology.

Linda Olsvig-Whittaker is a conservation biologist working for the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, located in Jerusalem.  She has a doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology (Cornell, 1980) and has worked extensively on patterns of biological diversity in Mediterranean landscapes.  As coordinator for scientific data in the INPA, she is currently working on conservation bioinformatics, and is the Israel focal point for the BioCASE and GBIF data network systems.  During 2008-2012 she is the lead Israeli participant in the European Biodiversity Observation Network (EBONE), a project under the EU 7th Framework.  She also serves as the communications officer for the SCB Asia Section.

Maiken Winter came to the U.S. from Germany in 1994 for her PhD in ornithology.  Since then she is working on various issues in grassland bird ecology and conservation.  As a trainee of Al Gore's climate project she also became deeply involved in educating the public on climate change. Maiken is living with her 2 daughters and husband in Ithaca, NY, USA, where she is a free-lance avian ecologist at the Cornell Laboratory of ornithology.

Alisse Garner Metge received a B.S. in Conservation Biology and Molecular Biology from Brigham Young University and an M.S. in Wildlife Resources from the University of Idaho. Her primary professional interest is conservation genetics, though she also spent several years working in human diagnostic genetics and disease gene discovery. Over the last several years, she has turned her research focus to the science-religion interface, especially as it relates to conservation. Her publications include work in both conservation genetics and in conservation-religion relationships. Alisse lives with her husband and two daughters in Spokane, WA, where she pursues independent research in science-religion issues.

Kyle Van Houtan holds appointments in the Biology Department and at the Center for Ethics at at Emory University. He earned his Ph.D. in ecology at the Nicholas School at Duke University working with the ecologist Stuart Pimm and the theologian Stanley Hauerwas. He holds an MS in ecology and evolutionary biology from Stanford, and a BA in environmental sciences from Virginia. His research develops analyses to understand and prevent the processes leading to the loss of species and natural systems, through: (i) designing geospatial models of long-term population, satellite, and climate data and (ii) applying research on moral formation and moral practice both in the sciences and in non-scientific communities.