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Areas of Expertise: Conservation planning, training in planning and GIS applications, communicating science, avian research
Sue Palminteri
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After completing several consulting projects for CSP, Sue Palminteri is now a staff member working primarily with WWF's southwestern Amazon science and conservation project. In this new position, she serves as a liaison among the varied elements of the project, other WWF departments, and outside institutions. She assists the field research teams in radio-tagging and monitoring wide-ranging birds and mammals while helping to maximize the conservation impact of our research through communication. As a consultant, Palminteri developed an interactive guide to ecoregion planning, assisted with training workshops on conservation planning in several WWF priority ecoregions, and helped train WWF collaborators in data collection, analysis, and communication. She also developed geographic information system training documentation and led training workshops for conservation students and professionals in Latin America through a multi-year project with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Previously, she assisted with research projects on macaws in Costa Rica and wading birds in Brazil. She received her M.S. in Environmental Management from Duke University.
Email: suzanne.palminteri@wwfus.org