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
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


