M.S. Natural Resources Policy and Management, University of Michigan, 1975; J.D. cum laude, University of Michigan, 1974; A.B. Economics with honors, Stanford University, 1971

Gail Achterman is a leading state and national natural resource and environmental expert with policy-making experience at the state, local and federal level. Gail also serves on the Oregon Transportation Commission and serves on the advisory board of the Klamath Basin Rangeland Trust. Before joining the Institute for Natural Resources, Gail served as Executive Director of the Deschutes Resources Conservancy, a non-profit organization dedicated to watershed restoration. She practiced law for 18 years with Stoel Rives LLP and served as Governor Neil Goldschmidt’s Assistant for Natural Resources.

Gail also serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Forest Resources.

Speeches (and reflections)
	Lessons from Scandinavia - Notes taken and reflections while on a trip to study best practices in sustainable development with the Portland Ambassadors, June 2008. (PDF)
	Transportation, Land Use and Climate Change - presentation at the Climate Solutions Summit (May 2008) in Nashville, Tennessee with former Vice President, Al Gore and the Oregon Summer Sustainability Series. (watch video provided by ODOT; 75 MB WMV file)
	Rebuilding and Renewing America Summit - Plenary Panel Remarks from the Session in Portland, Oregon, July 7, 2008 (PDF) and Remarks from the Session in Salem, Oregon, August 5, 2008 (PDF).
	Linking Watershed Planning to Land Use Planning: The Role of Watershed Groups - Sonoran Institute Powell Planning Training, Chico, Montana, March 26, 2007 (PDF)
	Remarks in the Plenary Session - Key Issues in Transportation Programming: 2nd National Conference, Seattle, November 12-14, 2006 (Listen to the speech online through TRB's e-Sessions or download the PDF.)
	Water Regulation vs. Land Use Planning - Northwest Water Policy & Law Symposium, Bozeman, September 2006 (PDF)
	The Urban-Rural Divide: Myth or Reality? - The Columbia Forum, Astoria, May 1, 2006 (PDF)
	Reminiscences and Reflections: FLPMA and Public Land Management - 2003
	The Institute for Natural Resources: Initial Vision - May 2003

Coursework: Business, Linn Benton Community College and Southwestern Oregon Community College.

Julie is the Administrative Assistant for the Directors of the Institute for Natural Resources and the Institute for Water & Watersheds, and manages the business office for both institutes. Julie assists with all facets of the program including assisting the Principal Investigator in implementing all phases of special projects such as research proposals, research projects, and workshops and training sessions. Before joining the INR, Julie worked in the College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences for the Native Americans in Marine & Space Sciences Program & Diversity Internship Program. Prior to that time, she worked for the Zoology Department in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program.

B.A. International Relations, Natural Resource Management; B.A. Economics, University of California, Davis; M.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University; Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, Oregon State University.

Before coming to INR, Lisa worked in international development and training. With the Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters she worked in international conflict resolution with regard to freshwater resources. Prior to that she was with the Office of International Research and Development. Lisa's research interests include environmental policy and decision-making, citizen participation, evaluation, and human dimensions of environmental risk.

B.A. Environmental Science and Botany, The Evergreen State College 1973; B.S. Biology with teaching certificate, Portland State University 1976; M.S. Botany and Plant Ecology, University of Oregon 1980.

Since 1986, Jimmy Kagan has been the Director of the Oregon Natural Heritage Program where he oversees botanical and ecologic inventories for Oregon. Jimmy also worked for The Nature Conservancy for several years as the staff ecologist and botanist. His research interests include biodiversity planning and management.

B.A. History, Australian National University; M.A.I.S., History, Journalism, Oregon State University; Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, Oregon State University.

Before coming to INR, Sally worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Forest Resources at Oregon State University. Sally's research interests include connections between humans and their natural resources, in particular the intertwined roles of science, communications, and social acceptance of resource management.

B.S. Environmental Science, Allegheny College 1993;
M.S. Wildlife Science, Oregon State University 1997.

Renee is on a job rotation with the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board until June 2009. Her background and interests include watershed assessment and planning, scientific writing, the application of science to inform decision-making and terrestrial ecology. Before joining the INR, Renee was Policy and Outreach Coordinator with the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans, a university-based research consortium focused on coastal-ocean research and policy-relevant outreach.

B.A. Urban Studies, San Francisco State University 2007.

Amy is a second year student in the Master of Public Policy program at Oregon State University.  Her research focuses on water and land use policy issues, but she maintains an interest in a variety of fields, especially international policy and urban planning.  As an intern at INR, she has worked on policy evaluation and needs assessment studies.  Amy also teaches Social Problems and Issues at OSU.

B.S., Geology, University of Wyoming, 1983; M.S., Geology (Hydrogeology), University of Wyoming, 1986; Ph.D., Geography, Oregon State University, 2006.

Todd has 20 years of experience as a hydrogeologist specializing in groundwater development and source water protection with emphasis in fractured rock and karst terranes. With professional licenses as a Certified Engineering Geologist and Certified Mediator, his interests include transboundary aquifers, environmental conflict resolution, and education in water science and policy.

B.A. History and Political Science, University of Oregon, 1996;
M.S. Forest Resources, Oregon State University, 2008.

Before joining INR, James served as staff or as a volunteer for a wide variety of Oregon NGOs, watershed councils, community groups and collaborative management projects.  His research interests include forest and rangeland disturbance dynamics, ecosystem services markets, public lands management, interactions between scientists, policy makers and managers, and natural resource management conflict resolution.

B.S. Planning and Public Policy, University of Oregon, 1995; Master of Community and Regional Planning, University of Oregon, 1997; Ph.D., Natural Resource Policy and Management, University of Michigan, 2004.

Sue comes to INR having worked with local, state and federal agencies, as well as non-governmental organizations, on land use planning, natural resource policy and management, and collaborative decision-making. Her research interests include natural resource management networks, natural resource governance, and interagency/intergovernmental dynamics for integrated resource management.

B.S. Geography, Oregon State University, expected 2009.

Myrica is assembling GIS wetlands data for the Wetlands Explorer project. Her research interests are in GIS, cartography, vegetation modeling and sustainable international development.

B.S. Business Administration, option in Marketing, Oregon State University, 2004.

Shawn has been at OSU since 1996 where he started work in Conferences and Events. In 2003 he began work for the Center for Fish Disease Research with grants and contracts, invoicing, and feeding the fishes. His outside interests involve computers, geocaching, and underwater hockey.

B.S. Computer Science, California Polytechnic State University 1993; M.S. Marine Resource Management, Oregon State University 2002.

Kuuipo's research interests include marine and coastal geographic information systems, particularly spatial analysis, metadata and web GIS. Kuuipo has been working on creating a managed area/stewardship map for Oregon which was recently used for analysis in ODFW's Comprehensive Wildlife Plan. Before joining INR, Kuuipo was Data/Metadata Librarian in Dawn Wright's Seafloor Mapping Marine and Coastal GIS Laboratory. Kuuipo is a founding member and Chair of the Oregon Chapter of the Society for Conservation GIS.

B.A. Geology, Carleton College 1993;
M.S. Geological Sciences, Penn State University 1996.

Maria provides support for INR's Web pages and electronic newsletters. She has a background in geology and stream geomorphology and an interest in science writing. Maria also writes, edits and maintains Web sites for the OSU Subsurface Biosphere Initiative and the OSU Institute for Water and Watersheds.

B.S. Biological Sciences, Shandong University, China 2006;
M.S. Molecular Cellular Biology, Oregon State University 2007.

Born and brought up in Jinan, China, a city which is famous for its 72 springs, Yao began at an early age to realize the importance of natural resources to people. Under the influence of her biologist grandfather, Yao went to college and studied biological sciences. In her second year at college she joined an expedition to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to save and protect the local endangered sheep--Procapra przewalskii. That experience inspired her commitment to an environmental career. After completing her MS degree, Yao decided to approach natural resources issues from a new and different perspective, and started her study in a Master of Public Policy program, focusing on Environmental Policy. Her plan for the next step is to pursue a PhD degree in Environmental Sociology.

As the Information Systems Manager and Environmental Review Biologist, Cliff is responsible for distributing data to environmental consultants and public agencies for environmental reviews and maintaining information systems for ORNHIC.

Master of Arts, Biogeography, University of Wyoming, 2003; Bachelor of Science, Environmental Science, University of Oregon, 2001; Associate's Degree, Renewable Resources Technology, Selkirk College, BC, 1993.

Arne's current projects include identifying and mapping distributions of imperiled species and communities on landscapes privately owned and managed for timber harvests. He is also working on mapping riparian vegetation in northeastern Oregon. Arne was raised in Toronto and has worked as a field biologist in British Columbia, Oregon, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado since 1993.

B.S. General Science, University of Oregon 1978; M.S. Botany, University of British Columbia 1985.

John's specialties are wetland community ecology, bryophytes, and historical ecology. His major duties include wetland vegetation classification and conservation, tracking statewide occurrences of rare nonvascular plants and rare wetland plant associations, and mapping and documenting historic vegetation in Oregon. He has worked for the Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center since 1989.

B.S. Wildlife Biology, University of Vermont 1982; M.S. Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, University of Missouri 1986.

Eleanor is the Zoology Projects Manager for the Oregon Natural Heritage Program. She currently coordinates a multi-agency project to monitor snowy plovers along the Oregon coast. Recent projects have included working on a Habitat Conservation Plan for Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, and developing wildlife distribution maps for ODFW's Comprehensive Wildlife Plan.

B.S. Biology, University of Puget Sound, Washington 2002;
M.S. Ecology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland 2003.

Lindsey organizes and enters information into the Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center's database and GIS systems and distributes this information through data requests. She also designs and manages Access databases for various Heritage projects and helps maintain the ORNHIC website. Lindsey began work at ORNHIC as an AmeriCorps volunteer through The Nature Conservancy.

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Case Western Reserve
University, 1989;
M.A., Geography, University of Maryland, 2004.

Eric uses satellite imagery and other geographic data to map vegetation communities, model distributions of plant and animal species, and detect change across Oregon and the national parks of Washington state. Before taking up a position in front of a computer, he spent a few years doing itinerant botany and ecology fieldwork in many parts of North America.

B.A. Biology, Lewis and Clark College

Sue has worked for the Oregon Natural Heritage Information Center for the past twenty two years. As the Botany Data Manager, Sue is responsible for information relating to the rare vascular plants in the state and for the maintenance of the general data system. Sue worked and volunteered with Jean Siddall and the Oregon Rare Plant Project for five years prior to joining the Oregon Natural Heritage Program of The Nature Conservancy.

BS Forestry 1984; MS Forestry 1997 (Wildland Recreation Emphasis) Northern Arizona University.

Jeff Behan’s research interests include wildland recreation policy, public lands policy and environmental policy. Before joining INR, Jeff worked at the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center and as a land management policy consultant. Jeff teaches classes in the Forest Resources Department, OSU College of Forestry.

B.S., Biology, Rutgers University.

Since 1997, Kathy has been working with the Heritage Program and monitoring the Western Snowy Plover, a small shorebird that lives and breeds on the west coast of the US from Washington to Baja California, and also breeds at inland locations in the Great Basin. David is part of the Western Snowy Plover Working Team, has been involved in several other projects that have impacts on plovers including the New Carissa removal project, the proposed Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Coos Bay, the proposed container facility in Coos Bay, and the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department’s Habitat Conservation Plan for the Snowy Plover.

B.S., Biology, Rutgers University;
M.S., Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Since 1997, David has been working with the Heritage Program and monitoring the Western Snowy Plover, a small shorebird that lives and breeds on the west coast of the US from Washington to Baja California, and also breeds at inland locations in the Great Basin. David is part of the Western Snowy Plover Working Team, has been involved in several other projects that have impacts on plovers including the New Carissa removal project, the proposed Liquefied Natural Gas plant in Coos Bay, the proposed container facility in Coos Bay, and the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department’s Habitat Conservation Plan for the Snowy Plover.