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SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD
Our Science Advisory Board supports our staff by providing scientific expertise in various fields of conservation science.
Scott Hoffman Black, Ph.D.
Xerces Society
Mr. Black has extensive experience as a researcher, conservationist, and teacher in endangered species conservation, pollinator conservation, macroinvertebrate monitoring, and forest and range management issues.
Erica Fleishman, Ph.D.
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Erica Fleishman is Director of the Conservation and Resource Management Program at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, California. She holds a B.S. and M.S. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Reno. Fleishman’s research focuses on integration of conservation science with management and policy, especially in the western United States. She has conducted field studies in the Great Basin since the early 1990s. She also has participated in the science advisory process for multiple Habitat Conservation Plan / Natural Community Conservation Plans in California. Fleishman serves on the editorial boards of Conservation Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and Insect Conservation and Diversity. She is founding editor (since 1994) of the newsletter of the Society for Conservation Biology and President of the Society’s North America Section.
Robert E. Gresswell, Ph.D.
US Geological Survey
Dr. Gresswell's interests concerning the influence of land-use activities on forested ecosystems have led to research on the relationships among landscape-scale environmental features, in-stream habitat characteristics, and coastal cutthroat trout abundance and distribution in watersheds in western Oregon.
Thomas Hardy, Ph.D.
Utah State University
Dr. Hardy's intersecting interests in hydraulic engineering and aquatic biology have led to the development and application of models that provide water resources management guidance. Over a 25-year career, Dr. Hardy has used these models to project the effects of water allocation activities on stream habitat for fishes, other riverine animals, and recreational values.
Richard Hutto, Ph.D.
University of Montana
Dr. Hutto has conducted research on migratory landbirds in Mexico in winter, the Southwest during spring and fall, and in the Northern Rockies in summer for more than 30 years. He developed and continues to supervise the USFS Northern Region Landbird Monitoring Program, and he has been studying the ecological effects of fire on bird communities for 20 years.
Steve Jessup, Ph.D.
Southern Oregon University
Dr. Jessup has been researching the origins and distributions of vascular plants, lichens, and terrestrial bryophytes in alpine and coastal headland environments for 15 years. This research provides unique perspectives on conservation of naturally rare species and climate change monitoring.
James Karr, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor
University of Washington
Dr. Karr has taught and done research in tropical forest ecology, ornithology, stream ecology, watershed management, landscape ecology, conservation biology, ecological health, and science and environmental policy, and developed the index of biotic integrity (IBI) to directly evaluate the effects of human actions on the health of living systems.
Wayne Minshall, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor
Idaho State University
Dr. Minshall is an internationally recognized expert on the ecology of flowing waters. His research interests emphasize aquatic benthic invertebrates, community dynamics, and stream ecosystem structure and function. For the past 20 years he has been conducting research on the long-term effects of wildfires on stream ecosystems.
Barry Noon, Ph.D.
Colorado State University
Dr. Noon's research focuses on conservation planning for threatened and endangered species, science-based management of public lands to conserve biological diversity, and conducting viability analyses for at-risk species. His work combines theoretical and empirical approaches to better understand factors that put species at risk of extinction.
Reed Noss, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Dr. Noss applies conservation biology principles to real-world problems in land conservation. His primary interest is regional conservation planning -- the application of science to conservation planning and management at a regional scale -- focusing on long-term maintenance of biodiversity over centuries and millennia.
Dennis Odion, Ph.D.
University of California - Santa Barbara
Dr. Odion is a vegetation ecologist who specializes in fire and community and landscape ecology. His current work involves the study of landscape scale fire patterns and their causes in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath-Siskiyou regions, and the effects of fire on the susceptibility of vegetation to Sudden Oak Death.
Michael Parker, Ph.D.
Southern Oregon University
Dr. Parker is an aquatic ecologist whose research focuses on effects of disturbance on stream communities and ecosystem processes and factors regulating the distribution and impacts of non-native species. He currently is involved in efforts to conserve and restore desert spring systems and monitor native amphibian populations.
Thomas Michael Power, Ph.D.
University of Montana
Dr. Power currently is Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Montana. He specializes in natural resource and regional economic development issues.
Jim Strittholt, Ph.D.
Conservation Biology Institute
Dr. Strittholt specializes in applying computer mapping technologies to address various ecological assessments and conservation planning projects in the U.S. and internationally. His expertise includes conservation planning, landscape ecology, geographic information systems, and remote sensing.
Vicki Tripoli, Ph.D.
Dr. Tripoli has focused on environmental health issues and biological monitoring, examining the effects of global persistent pollutants on ecosystems and helping develop a pharmocokinetic model that led to setting fish consumption advisories and other environmental health policies. She also is a consultant in ecological research design and statistics.
Jack Williams, Ph.D.
Trout Unlimited
Dr. Williams has extensive experience at senior science and research positions within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management, and also served important management positions within the BLM and the Forest Service. His professional work has focused on conservation, watershed restoration, fisheries, ecosystem management and endangered Species.
