Conservation Science

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

Conservation Science Staff
Abell, Robin -- Senior Freshwater Conservation Biologist
Areas of Expertise: Freshwater conservation biology

Bhagabati, Nirmal, Ph.D. -- Senior Program Officer
Areas of Expertise: Ecosystem Services, Ornithology

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

Fox, Helen E., Ph.D. -- Senior Marine Scientist 
Areas of Expertise: Coral reef ecology

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

Freeman, Sarah -- Conservation Hydrologist
Areas of Expertise: Water resources management, hydrology, GIS, development

Glew, Louise - Program Officer
Areas of Expertise: Impact monitoring and evaluation, integrated conservation and development, East African rangelands, GIS, remote sensing, ecosystem services, social dimensions of conservation

Graves, Kate - Program Officer
Areas of Expertise:Community-building web portals, Drupal, natural hazards, risk

Huang, Charles – GIS Specialist
Areas of Expertise: GIS, GIS and 3D Animation, Conservation Biology, Online Mapping, Infrastructure and Extractives

Krithivasan, Roopa -- Program Associate
Areas of Expertise: Conservation and land rights, South Asia

Kutchma, Donna -- Senior Administrative Assistant

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

Mascia, Michael B., Ph.D. -- Senior Social Scientist
Areas of Expertise: Environmental politics and policy; social dimensions of biodiversity conservation; program evaluation; marine conservation

McKenzie, Emily -- Lead -- Policy and Finance, Natural Capital Project
Areas of Expertise: Ecological and environmental economics, ecosystem service policies and payments

Naidoo, Robin, Ph.D. -- Conservation Scientist
Areas of Expertise: Environmental economics, ecosystem services, landscape ecology, wildlife ecology

Olwero, Nasser -- Information Unit Manager
Areas of Expertise: Conservation GIS and spatial modeling, Ecosystem services mapping, Database Management, Programming, Web development

Pailler, Sharon -- Social Scientist
Areas of Expertise: Monitoring and Evaluation, Protected Areas

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

Poor, Erin -- GIS Analyst
Areas of Expertise: Landscape Ecology, Conservation GIS, Conservation Biology, Habitat Modeling

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

Rosenthal, Amy -- Policy and Finance Specialist, Natural Capital Project
Areas of Expertise: Amazon; REDD+ projects and policy; environmental service policy and markets; project design, management, and monitoring and evaluation; conservation finance; application of ecosystem service modeling; scenario development

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

Thieme, Michele -- Senior Freshwater Scientist
Areas of Expertise: freshwater ecology, freshwater conservation planning

Wickel, Bart, Ph.D. -- Senior Conservation Hydrologist
Areas of Expertise: Hydrology, Remote Sensing, GIS, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

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

Verutes, Gregory -- GIS Analyst
Areas of Expertise: ecosystem services, marine spatial planning, GIS programming and modeling for conservation