World Wildlife Fund

Conservation Science

Staff

WWF's Conservation Science program
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Vice President of Conservation Science
Eric Dinerstein, Ph. D.
Areas of Expertise: Tropical mammals, Large mammal biology, Biogeography, Old-growth forests, Global biodiversity, community ecology and conservation priorities Conservation biology of the rhinoceros and the recovery of other Asian animals

Director of Conservation Science
Taylor Ricketts, Ph. D.
Areas of Expertise: Ecology, Ecosystem Service, Biogeography, Insects, Latin America, Pollination

Conservation Science Staff
Abell, Robin -- Senior Freshwater Conservation Biologist
Areas of Expertise: Freshwater ecology and conservation, Freshwater conservation planning, Global freshwater biodiversity and threats, Freshwater ecoregions, Freshwater/basin planning in the Yangtze, Amazon, Congo, Mekong river systems; Southeast rivers and streams of the United States; the Chihuahuan Desert, Species migration Ecological connectivity, Freshwater reserve design

Burgess, Neil, Ph.D. -- Africa Conservation Specialist Consultant
Areas of Expertise: Africa biodiversity patterns, African terrestrial ecoregions, African conservation issues, Eastern African forests, Bird Census methods, Project design, Project management, Project Monitoring and Evaluation, Integrated Conservation and Development, NGO establishment and capacity building

Claus, Annie -- Social Scientist
Areas of Expertise: Social dimensions of biodiversity conservation, cultural assessment, marine conservation

Fox, Helen E., Ph.D. -- Senior Marine Conservation Biologist
Areas of Expertise: Marine ecology, threats, and conservation; coral reefs; marine protected area design

Forrest, Jessica -- GIS Network Coordinator
Areas of Expertise: Conservation GIS, Remote Sensing, Conservation Planning, Landscape Ecology, Habitat Modeling, GIS Training

Kutchma, Donna -- Senior Administrative Assistant

Levine, Eliot -- Program Associate, Climate Change & Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Fund

Llewellyn, Bronwyn -- Program Officer, Conservation Measures
Areas of Expertise: (Conservation Ecology, Measures, General Mapping, Ethology, Survey Design, Asia and Africa regions

Lombana, Al -- Marine Conservation Specialist
Areas of Expertise: marine landscape ecology, GIS, conservation planning, reserve design, decision support systems

Loucks, Colby -- Deputy Director
Areas of Expertise: Biodiversity conservation Landscape ecology, Conservation biology, Biogeography, Conservation planning

Mascia, Michael B., Ph.D. -- Senior Program Officer / Social Scientist
Areas of Expertise: environmental politics and policy; social dimensions of biodiversity conservation; marine conservation

Morrison, John -- Senior Conservation Specialist, Deputy Director
Areas of Expertise: general ecology and conservation biology, geology, hydrology, freshwater and tidal wetland restoration, New Guinea, Indonesia, Alaska, Pacific Islands, sustainable forestry, conservation in Eastern Himalayas, Mesoamerican Reef, Indochina, Sulu-Sulawesi Seas, Philippines, Northern Andes, area-sensitive species and processes, coauthor of Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific

Naidoo, Robin, Ph.D. -- Conservation Scientist
Areas of Expertise: Ecological economics, environmental economics, landscape ecology

Olwero, Nasser -- GIS Manager
Areas of Expertise: Conservation GIS and spatial modelling, Remote Sensing, Database Management

Palminteri, Sue -- Senior Conservation Analyst
Areas of Expertise: Conservation planning, training in planning and GIS applications, communicating science, avian research

Pointer McCleskey, Dawn -- Librarian
Areas of Expertise: User needs assessment, collection and service development, knowledge management

Powell, George, Ph.D. -- Senior Conservation Scientist
Areas of Expertise: Training of Conservation Landscape Design and Priority Setting, Animal Behavior, GIS Training, Reserve Design as a Function of Seasonal Migrations

Shapiro, Aurélie -- Remote Sensing Specialist
Areas of Expertise: Landscape Ecology, Remote sensing, applied GIS, spatial modeling, conservation planning

Sindorf, Nikolai -- Conservation Hydrologist
Areas of Expertise: Hydrology, river basin/water management, irrigation and GIS

Stephanson, Sheri -- Program Officer, Social Measures
Areas of Expertise: Social systems and governance, conservation program evaluation, international development, Latin American region

Thieme, Michele -- Freshwater Conservation Biologist
Areas of Expertise: freshwater biodiversity conservation planning, Africa freshwater systems, freshwater fish distribution and natural history

Wickel, Bart, Ph.D. -- Conservation Hydrologist
Areas of Expertise: Hydrology, Remote Sensing, GIS

Wikramanayake, Eric, Ph.D. -- Senior Conservation Scientist
Areas of Expertise: Biodiversity conservation and planning, community and landscape ecology, tropical freshwater fish ecology, large mammal ecology and conservation, Asia region

Research Associates Working Closely with CSP
Lehner, Bernhard, Ph.D. -- Freshwater GIS Specialist
Areas of Expertise: (Large-scale) Hydrology, Climate change (impacts on global water resources), GIS (with focus on hydrological issues)

Allnutt, Tom -- Senior Conservation Analyst
Areas of Expertise: GIS, remote sensing, habitat mapping, representation analysis, gap analysis, conservation planning, priority setting, reserve design, planning software, decision-support tools

Lamoreux, John -- Conservation Specialist
John started at the University of Virginia in the fall of 2002. His dissertation involves work he started while at WWF which is a first of it's kind species database of the world listing all species that are found in all terrestrial ecoregions. This work will be available online in the summer of 2004.

Llewellyn, Ghislaine "Gilly", Ph.D. -- Marine Conservation Biologist
Areas of Expertise: Tropical marine ecology, marine community ecology, large-scale spatial and temporal trends in reef eco-systems, marine conservation planning, and marine protected area management and design.

Schipper, Jan -- Associate
Jan started a joint Ph. D. program between the University of Idaho and Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) in the fall of 2003 working on conservation planning for field conservation in Talamanca, Costa Rica. He is currently helping Conservation Science complete an updated ecoregion analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean which we hope will be available from Island Press in early 2005.

Strand, Holly -- Senior Conservation Specialist
Areas of Expertise: human population and environment issues, temperate grasslands, remote sensing and GIS applications, monitoring and evaluation, and geographic priority setting

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