Secretary JoAnne Eggers has a long history of public service having served as an elected member of the Ashland Parks Commission since 1997. She is a founding member of the Ashland Watershed Partnership and the Ashland Watershed Stewardship Alliance. JoAnne is a retired teacher and has worked as a community organizer on a variety of issues.She earned a B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, and did graduate work in education at the University of California at Davis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reed Noss, Ph.D.
University of Central 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Harmon, Ph.D.
Oregon State University
Dr. Harmon is the Richardson Chair and Professor in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University. He is also Co-Director of the Cooperative Chemistry Analytical Laboratory. He earned  his Ph.D. in Botany and Plant Pathology at OSU in 1986, then moved to the Department of Forest Science. Dr. Harmon has done research on numerous projects, including the development of methods and models for estimating the stores and fluxes of carbon from forest lands in the Pacific Northwest region.

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.

Healy Hamilton, Ph.D.
California Academy of Sciences
Dr. Hamilton is a biodiversity scientist at the California Academy of Sciences, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Geography at San Francisco State University. She directs the Academy's Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics, a program that integrates biological and geospatial data for biodiversity research, conservation planning, and education. Her current research includes developing methods for forecasting species range shifts induced by climate change to support the design and implementation of large landscape wildland networks, which represent a central strategy for biodiversity adaptation. Dr. Hamilton received her masters degree from Yale University and her doctorate in Integrative Biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a former U.S. Fulbright Fellow and a Switzer Foundation Environmental Leadership Grantee.

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.

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.

Scott Hoffman Black, Ph.D.
Xerces Society
Dr. Black has extensive experience as a researcher, conservationist, and teacher in endangered species conservation, pollinator conservation, macroinvertebrate monitoring, and forest and range management issues.