Advisory Committee

Mark D. Schwartz (Chair) is a phenoclimatologist and Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, as well as co-founder of the USA-NPN. For more than 25 years, he has been involved in a wide range of phenological research, especially at the continental scale, which has produced over 60 publications, including the edited book Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science. He is also Principal Investigator of the USA-NPN Research Coordination Network (RCN) grant, which is funded from 2007-2012 by the National Science Foundation.
E-mail: mds@uwm.edu
URL: http://people.uwm.edu/mds
(term expires in December 2014, Chair for 2012)

Julio L. Betancourt (Vice-Chair) is a Senior Scientist with the USGS, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona, and co-founder of USA-NPN. He investigates climatic influences on streamflow and ecosystem dynamics to inform risk and resource management, and is a leading expert on the vegetation history of the North and South American deserts. He is leading the battle to keep buffelgrass from transforming the Sonoran Desert into flammable grassland (www.buffelgrass.org). In 2009, he received the Presidential Rank Award and was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
E-mail: jlbetanc@usgs.gov
URL: http://wwwpaztcn.wr.usgs.gov/julio_cv.html
(term expires in December 2013, Vice-Chair for 2012)

Patty Glick is Senior Global Warming Specialist at the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). She has been dedicated to the issue of climate change for more than 18 years. Much of her work has focused on translating the science of global warming and its impacts on fish and wildlife into creative and understandable outreach tools, including the award-winning Gardener’s Guide to Global Warming. In 2007, Ms. Glick was one of 23 women around the world named as “An outstanding woman working on climate change issues” by The World Conservation Union (IUCN), and was recognized by The Wildlife Society as “Today’s Wildlife Professional” in The Wildlife Professional, Fall 2008.
E-mail: Glick@nwf.org
(term expires in December 2012)

John E. Gross is an ecologist with the National Park Service, Office of Inventory, Monitoring, and Evaluation. He supports the monitoring of park natural resources, with a strong focus on broad-scale issues, including monitoring and evaluation of the effects of land cover and land use changes on park resources, and developing effective responses to climate change. John has been with the National Park Service since 2003; previously he was Principal Research Ecologist (landscape ecology) with CSIRO and Senior Researcher at Colorado State University.
E-mail: John_Gross@NPS.gov
URL: http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/index.cfm
(term expires in December 2013)

William Hargrove is a an ecologist with the USFS Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC). He received an M.S. in entomology and a Ph.D. in ecology, both from the University of Georgia. His research interests are landscape ecology, ecoregionalization, conservation, statistics, parallel computation, modeling, GPS, and remote sensing. At EFETAC, he is designing a national early warning system using satellite imagery that examines the lower 48 United States at 500m resolution to identify potential threats.  Before coming to USFS, he worked for the Geographic Information and Spatial Technologies Group and the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
Email: hnw@geobabble.org
URL: http://www.geobabble.org/~hnw
(term expires December 2012)

Geoffrey M. Henebry is a Professor of Biology and Geography and a Senior Research Scientist at the Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University. He received a B.A. in liberal arts from St. John’s College in 1982, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in environmental sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1986 and 1989, respectively. His research interests are broad, but a recurrent theme is the use of remote sensing to study ecological patterns and processes, including the interplay between land surface phenology and land cover/land use change.
E-mail: Geoffrey.Henebry@sdstate.edu
URL: http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu
(term expires in December 2014)

David W. Inouye is Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland, where he directs a graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology. Since 1972 he has spent summers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (Gothic, Colorado), where he has conducted a long-term study (since 1973) of the variation in the abundance and phenology of wildflowers. Data from this study are showing the consequences of climate change on the phenology and demography of several species. He is also working on bumble bees and pollination biology.
E-mail: inouye@umd.edu
URL: http://www.life.umd.edu/biology/faculty/inouye/inouye2.htm
(term expires in December 2014) 

Susan J. Mazer is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Ecology & Evolution at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research examines the evolution of life history and reproductive traits within and among wild species. Her lab is currently examining the causes and consequences of the evolution of flowering time, self-fertilization, physiological performance, and drought-avoidance in the wildflower genus Clarkia in the southern Sierra Nevada, where plants may be particularly vulnerable to water stress and the effects of climate change.
E-mail: mazer@lifesci.ucsb.edu
URL: http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/eemb/faculty/mazer/index.html
(term expires in December 2014)

David Moore is a broadly trained ecologist. Before joining the University of Arizona David spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado and was a faculty member of the Geography Department at King’s College London and served as a visiting scientist at the National Ecological Observatory Network. 
Email: davidjpmoore@gmail.com
(term expires in December 2012) 

Tim Owen is Deputy Chief of the Climate Services Division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center (NOAA/NCDC). Mr. Owen has worked on a variety of projects at NCDC, including climate data validation, urban heat-island research, climate normals generation, climate applications using GIS, assessment of socioeconomic information, and the start of drought.gov - the web portal of the National Integrated Drought Information System. He holds graduate degrees from Penn State (M.S., 1995) and UNC Chapel Hill (M.R.P., 2000), where he respectively conducted research on satellite studies of urban regions and environmental planning for viewsheds. In recent years, he has served as NCDC's National Partnership Liaison and Executive Officer. He has published over a dozen peer-reviewed articles, and has provided input to both the 2007 IPCC and 2009 Climate Change Impacts reports.
Email: Tim.Owen@noaa.gov
(term expires December 2014)

Joseph Russo is a Senior Scientist and President of ZedX, Inc., an information (IT) company specializing in decision-support algorithms and data visualization tools for the agricultural and environmental industries. He has been involved in the design and development of interactive, web-based, decision-support platforms and learning services for the agricultural sector, including the ipmPIPE for the USDA, and AgFleet for the precision agriculture community. In 2008, he was one of three recipients of the national PrecisionAg Award of Excellence, which is given by The PrecisionAg Institute.
ZedX, Inc.
E-mail: russo@zedxinc.com
URL: http://zedxinc.com
(term expires in December 2013)

Inigo San Gil is the liason between the National Biological Information Infrastructure and the Long Term Ecological Research network. He coordinates interoperability among the programs. Inigo brokered over 30,000 ecological data sets into national biological clearinghouses. He was born in San Sebastian, Spain and earned a B.S in physics from the University of Zaragoza and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Yale. Inigo joined IBM and Los Alamos National Lab where he performed simulations and data analysis on supercomputers. Before working with NBII, Inigo managed the Yale Core Facility for Bioinformatics where he developed web-enabled databases and data analysis tools for genetics.
E-mail: isangil@lternet.edu
(term expires in December 2012)

Woody Turner is the Program Scientist for Biological Diversity and Program Manager for Ecological Forecasting in the NASA Headquarters Earth Science Division. He oversees the agency’s basic research efforts to use satellite-derived information to understand the relationship of biodiversity to climate, landscape change, and ecosystem function. He also supports the linkage of satellite observations and ecological models for decision making on behalf of conservation biology and sustainable regional development.
Email: woody.turner@hq.nasa.gov
(term expires in December 2013)

Brian Wee is NEON, Inc.’s Chief of External Affairs who liaises with Congress, Federal agencies,and other scientific organizations.  One of his focal areas is on observations and data interoperability and how that enables decision support and eScience.  Brian holds a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), and a B.Sc. in Information Systems and Computer Science.
E-mail: bwee@neoninc.org
(term expires in December 2013) 

Bruce E. Wilson is the Group Leader for Environmental Data Science and Systems, in the Environmental Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. That group operates data centers for the Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the U.S. Geological Survey. The group also does research on tools and methods for the harvesting and delivery of ecological and climate data to researchers, decision makers, and educators. Wilson also holds a joint appointment with the University of Tennessee, in the School of Information Science, where his research is on methods to improve the retention and distribution of scientific data.
E-mail: wilsonbe@ornl.gov
URL: http://www.ornl.gov/~wb5
(term expires in December 2012)