Sustainable Ecosystems Institute
Science Review of NSO Draft Recovery Plan
Scientific Panel
Owl Biology Team
Andrew Carey, Ph.D., Forest Management Consultant, Emeritus Scientist with the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station, and Courtesy Professor of Ecosystem Science at the Univerity of Washington. His research incorporates many aspects of forest ecology including succession and management, ecological function, and old growth ecology and conservation.
Martin Cody, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. His research interests include community structure, determinants of diversity, density and distribution, interspecific interactions and adaptive morphology. Dr. Cody served on the Northern Spotted Owl status review panel in 2004.
Jerry Franklin, Ph.D., is a Professor of Ecosystem Analysis at the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington. His research focuses on forest ecology; specifically stand development, ecosystem structure and function, disturbances and biological legacies, and ecological forestry. Dr. Franklin served on the Northern Spotted Owl status review panel in 2004.
Mark Fuller, Ph.D., is a Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Boise Idaho. His research interests are focused on avian ecology and raptor biology; specifically habitat associations, annual movements, population dynamics, food habits and natural resource conservation.
Rocky Gutierrez, Ph.D., is a Professor and the Gordon Gullion Chair in Forest Wildlife, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in game bird ecology, endangered species conservation, habitat ecology, and sustainable wildlife management strategies. Dr. Gutierrez served on the Northern Spotted Owl status review panel in 2004 and has published extensively on owl biology.
John Lehmkuhl, Ph.D., is a Research Wildlife Biologist and a member of the Eastside Forest Health Restoration Team at the USDA Forest Service Wenatchee Forest Sciences Lab. His current research interests are in landscape and disturbance ecology of Pacific Northwestern forests and their influences on the ecology and management of wildlife. Other research and management interests include the ecology of large herbivores, mammalian ecology, grassland ecology, conservation biology, and international conservation.
Habitat/Fire Team:
Andrew Carey - see Owl Biology Team
Jerry Franklin - see Owl Biology Team
Miles Hemstrom, Ph.D., is a Research Ecologist for the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station at the Portland Forestry Sciences Laboratory. His current research interests include: 1) understanding and modeling landscape interactions of vegetation, fire and other disturbances, invasive plants, and management in east-side Oregon and Washington ecosystems, 2) understanding, modeling and inventory of riparian/streamside conditions at watershed and larger scales with a focus on eastern Oregon and Washington, and 3) application of landscape models to landscape planning and assessments.
Paul Hessburg, Ph.D., is a Research Ecologist with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. He is currently stationed at the Wenatchee Forestry Sciences Laboratory and serves as Team Leader of the Eastside Forest Health Restoration Team. His current research interests include the study of landscape pattern-disturbance process interactions, the ecology and epidemiology of root pathogens, natural range and variation of vegetation and disturbance patterns, climate regime and fire regime interactions, terrestrial disturbance and hydrology interactions, and microsite-insect and disease disturbance relations.
John Lehmkuhl - see Owl Biology Team
Scott Stephens, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Fire Science at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley. His current research projects include Forest Structure and wildfire effects of Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forests in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico, Fire and Fire Surrogates Treatments for Ecological Restoration, and the Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project.
Habitat Fitness Potential Team:
Rocky Gutierrez - see Owl Biology Team
Jim Nichols, Ph.D., is a Wildlife Biologist and Senior Scientist at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland. His areas of expertise and interest include animal population dynamics and management and demographic estimation methods.
Ken Pollock, Ph.D., is a Professor of Zoology, Biomathematics and Statistics and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in the Department of Zoology at North Carolina State University. His research interests include: sampling theory, survey methodology especially for angler surveys, statistical and population ecology, and statistical and mathematical modeling of wildlife and fisheries populations.
