About the Speakers
Dr. Keith L. Bildstein is Sarkis Acopian Director of Conservation Science at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, Pa. He received his Ph. D. in Zoology from Ohio State University where his graduate studies focused on the behavioral ecology of Red-tailed Hawks, Northern Harriers, and American Kestrels wintering in south-central Ohio farmlands. He now oversees Hawk Mountain’s science and education programs, coordinates the activities of the Sanctuary’s interns, graduate students, and visiting scientists, and manages Hawk Mountain’s growing databases. His research includes analysis of Hawk Mountain’s long-term migration database, phylogeography, ecology, and conservation of the world’s migratory raptors, energy management in migrating raptors, and wintering, breeding, and migration ecology of American Kestrels. E-Mail: bildstein@hawkmtn.org
Mr. D. Daniel Boone is a professional ecologist and natural resources policy analyst. Mr. Boone has 30 years of experience in studying wildlife and their habitat throughout the Appalachian region. He began his career as a wildlife biologist with the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and later served as Coordinator of the Maryland Natural Heritage Program, a division of the Department of Natural Resources. He also was employed for several years as a Forest Ecologist with The Wilderness Society. Mr. Boone now works as an independent environmental consultant. He co-authored the recent report “Landscape Classification System: Addressing Environmental Issues Associated with Utility-Scale Wind Energy Development in Virginia” (available via www.VAwind.org). He has been actively engaged with issues and concerns regarding utility-scale wind energy development for nearly four years. E-Mail: ddanboone@yahoo.com
Mr. William Capouillez is Chief of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Division of Environmental Planning & Habitat Protection. He holds a B.S. degree in Earth Sciences from Pennsylvania State University, is also a professionally licensed geologist, and a retired U.S. Army officer. As part of his current job duties and responsibilities, he was instrumental in the development and implementation of the Commission’s current policy on wind-energy development on State Game Lands, as well as private lands wind-development projects relating to the protection of the Commonwealth’s bird and mammal resources. He is a member of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Quality Board, and has been a featured speaker at several State and International conferences pertaining to wind-energy development and the conservation of birds and mammals and their affiliated wildlife habitats. E-Mail: wcapouille@state.pa.us
Dr. F. Javier Cevallos is President of Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He received Masters and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana. His earlier positions included Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Maine at Orono, and Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he also was a faculty advisor to the Provost. In 1996, he was a Fellow of the American Council on Education (ACE), spending his fellowship with Douglas Bennet, President of Wesleyan University. After returning to the University of Massachusetts, he became Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and later Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. In 2002, he became President of Kutztown University. E-Mail: cevallos@kutztown.edu
Dr. Priscilla N. Cohn is Professor Emeritus from Abington College, Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph. D. in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College. She has written on animals, environmental issues, and ethical problems as well as on contemporary philosophers and the history of philosophy, publishing in English and Spanish. In addition to numerous journal articles, her books on animals include Etica aplicada (Applied Ethics) with José Ferrater Mora, Contraception in Wildlife and Ethics and Wildlife. She has lectured on five continents including Spain where the Queen attended her summer school course. She is the founder and director of the PNC foundation that organized the first international conference on Contraception in Wildlife in Philadelphia in 1987, and that initiated and funded the first PZP fertility study ever done on White-tailed Deer. E-Mail: PFERRATERM@aol.com
Dr. Percy H. Dougherty is a Professor of Geography at Kutztown University where he teaches courses in physical and environmental geography. His research specialties include karst topography, sinkhole formation, planning, and the impact of “terroir” on wine production. In addition, he is Chairman of the Lehigh County Commissioners and Second Vice President of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania. He is the Past Chairman of the Energy, Environment and Land Use Committee of the County Commissioner Association of Pennsylvania, and a member of the Energy, Environment and Land Use Committee of the National Association of Counties.
E-Mail: doughert@kutztown.edu
Bill Evans has spent 20 years studying the nocturnal flight calls of migrating birds in North America. He initiated the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s avian night flight call research in 1994, and in 1998 founded the non-profit called Old Bird. The current focus of this organization is in using acoustics for long-term monitoring of various songbird species and for mitigating bird mortality at tall man-made structures. In addition, the organization provides instructions and tools for anyone interested in establishing their own night flight call monitoring station. Bill’s work has been described in The New York Times, New Scientist, NPR, BBC, PBS, Science and many popular conservation and birding magazines.
E-Mail: wrevans@clarityconnect.com
Dr. Chris Farmer is the North American Monitoring Coordinator at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. His duties there include the development and application of methods of analyzing migration counts as indices of raptor populations throughout North America. He received his Ph. D. in ecology in 2002 from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in Syracuse, NY. Before joining the staff of Hawk Mountain, he studied predator-prey interactions at Montana State University and the ecological effects of industrial logging in Alaska. E-Mail: farmer@hawkmtn.org
Dr. Michael Fry is Director of Pesticides and Birds at American Bird Conservancy, Washington, D. C. He previously was a research physiologist for 25 years at the Department of Avian Sciences at UC Davis. Dr. Fry serves on the National Wind Coordinating Committee, and is a member of the Minerals Management Service Science Advisory Committee, and Chair of the subcommittee reviewing wind energy projects proposed for the outer continental shelf. He also serves on the US EPA Pesticide Program Dialog Committee, and as panel member for the National Academy of Sciences. He has participated in international reviews and symposia for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and for the United Nations University in Japan. Dr. Fry also has been a technical expert for the United States on several oil spills and major pollution cases. E-Mail: mfry@abcbirds.org
Dr. Michael R. Gannon is Professor of Biology and Interim Assistant Dean of Research at Penn State University, Altoona College. His research focuses on population and community ecology of bats. He has authored or co-authored nearly 30 publications on bats, including one book. His current research focuses on long-term monitoring of bat populations and their response to both natural and anthropogenic disturbance. E-Mail: mrg5@psu.edu
Eric R. Glitzenstein, Esq., is a founding partner of the Washington, D. C.-based public interest law firm Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal, which represents non-profit conservation and animal protection organizations in federal and state court litigation. Mr. Glitzenstein has litigated extensively under the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and other federal wildlife laws. He is the President of the Wildlife Advocacy Project, a non-profit organization that seeks to educate the public concerning issues affecting wildlife. He has taught Public Interest Advocacy at Georgetown University Law Center and is a board member of Defenders of Wildlife. E-Mail: eric@meyerglitz.com
Mr. Alan Gregory is a writer for the Standard-Speaker in Hazleton, Pa. He’s a retired lieutenant colonel, having served in the Air Force/Air Force Reserve for 26 years. His journalism career spans 32 years. Alan is a two-time winner in the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publisher’s Association’s Keystone Awards competition. He writes a conservation column and belongs to the Outdoor Writers Association of America, the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association and The Newspaper Guild. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Idaho State University and did graduate studies at the University of Oklahoma and State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He’s been a volunteer for conservation organizations and is a director of the North Branch Land Trust in Luzerne County, PA.
E-Mail: meg5@psu.edu
Mr. Donald S. Heintzelman is a professional ornithologist with 50 years of field experience studying raptor migrations. He received an A. B. degree from Muhlenberg College and did graduate studies at Lehigh University. He was a curator at the State Museum of Pennsylvania and New Jersey State Museum, ecotourism ornithologist on the MS Lindblad Explorer, and studied and photographed wildlife in North and South America, the Antarctic (including the Falkland Islands and South Georgia), Amazonia, Galapagos Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and East Africa. He wrote numerous articles, 21 published books (three are pioneering landmark volumes in hawk migration science), and produced several 16mm lecture films used on the National Audubon Society’s former wildlife lecture film series. E-Mail: donsh@enter.net
Ms. Sandy Hevener is a magistrate and journalist. More than 20 years in those fields developed her expertise to separate facts from hearsay. Her role in the Eagle Watch project was data collection, verification, and formatting. Her observations of eagles from her home in a hollow of Snowy Mountain in Highland County, Virginia, from late winter through fall 1980 spawned her interests in eagles. During that period she watched a pair of Golden Eagles do a courtship display, and raise a pair of juveniles. Hevener’s eagle observations span more than 25 years. She is a member of the Bath-Highland Bird Club.
E-Mail: hevener@htcnet.org
Mrs. Laura Jackson has been a science educator for over 32 years and currently teaches environmental science and advanced biology at Bedford High School in Bedford, Pennsylvania. She has received many local and state teaching awards, including the NSF Presidential Award for Science Teaching and the Pennsylvania Outstanding Conservation Educator of the Year Award. Numerous grants have enabled her students to monitor local watersheds, participate in stream rehabilitation projects, and improve habitats for wildlife. She has presented many community programs on nature, photography, and conservation. She serves as co-chair of Save Our Allegheny Ridges (SOAR), a grassroots group fighting to save these forested ridges in Pennsylvania from industrial development.
E-Mail: mljackson@pennswoods.net
Dr. Thomas H. Kunz is Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology at Boston University. His research focuses on the ecology, behavior, evolution, and conservation biology of bats. He is the author or co-author of over 200 publications and is the editor of five books on bats. His current research focuses on assessing the ecological and economic impact of Brazilian Free-tailed Bats on agroecosystems. He has pioneered the applications of infrared thermal imaging in ecology and behavior. He is currently serving on a National Research Council committee investigating “Environmental Impacts of Wind Energy.” E-Mail: kunz@bu.edu
Mr. Rick Lambert is a regional director for the Virginia Speleological Survey. He is co-founder of the Highland County Cave Survey and the Germany Valley Karst Survey. He has been involved since the late 1970s with the United States Fish & Wildlife Service, the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries in protecting Virginia Big-eared Bats in West Virginia and Virginia. He is the author of numerous caving articles and maintains a regional data base of caves sheltering endangered bats in Virginia and West Virginia. E-Mail: highland@virginiacaves.org
Mr. Jonathan Linowes is president of Parkerhill Technology Group LLC, a strategic management and web development firm, focusing on vital websites and internet applications that foster community collaboration and communication, knowledge bases, and business development. Jonathan designed, developed, and maintains the Industrial Wind Action Group’s website, www.windaction.org (and its two precursors). He has over 25 years of entrepreneurial management experience, from small start-ups to multinational corporations, and is active in a number of non-profit organizations in New Hampshire supporting rural economic development and entrepreneurship.
E-Mail: lisa@linowes.com
Ms. Lisa Linowes is the executive director of Industrial Wind Action (IWA) Group, an advocacy group focused on the impacts/benefits analysis associated with industrial wind energy development. She is an experienced conservationist and land use advocate with over 20 years of executive business experience. Ms. Linowes has held high-profile elected and volunteer positions in community planning, land negotiation, and education outreach. E-Mail: lisa@linowes.com
Dr. Brian Mangan is Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science and Director of the Environmental Program at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He also is the founder and Director of The Susquehanna River Institute, a non-profit organization devoted to education, research, and repair of the Susquehanna River and Watershed. Prior to assuming both of these roles in 2000, Dr. Mangan worked as an environmental consultant where he first encountered bird impactions with tall-manmade structures. Apart from his teaching and administrative duties, much of Dr. Mangan’s time is spent on ecological research projects, particularly in relation to river ecology, behavioral ecotoxicology, and industry-environmental interactions. E-Mail: bpmangan@kings.edu
Dr. Albert M. Manville, II is a wildlife biologist with the Division of Migratory Bird Management, U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and received his Ph. D. in wildlife ecology and management from Michigan State University. He has published more than 120 professional and popular papers and chapters, and given more than 130 invited presentations. In 1999, Al received the Conservation Service Award from the Secretary of the Interior for bird conservation efforts with the electric utility industry. He currently serves as the national lead on anthropocentric causes of bird mortality from structures and fishery impacts. He also chairs the Communication Tower Working Group, and is involved with numerous other groups and committees. E-Mail: Albert_Manville@fws.gov
Ms. Carol A. Peterson is a geologist with Kerr Environmental Services Corporation and an adjunct faculty member at Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She earned her Bachelor or Science degree in geology from Old Dominion University in 2002 and is currently pursuing her Masters of Science degree in geology. Her Master’s thesis is a cave study in Highland County, Virginia, which has allowed Highland to be the first Virginia county to have all cave data entered into a GIS database. She has been a member of the Highland County Cave Survey since 2000. E-Mail: cpeterson@kerrenv.com
Ms. Patricia Reum and her husband currently operate Bear Mountain Farm and Wilderness Retreat in Highland County, Virginia. Their farm is a popular ecotourism destination and is listed on the Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail. She received a B. S. degree in Zoology from the University of Manitoba, a B. A. degree in studio art, and a Masters Degree in Outdoor Education. Her professional experiences include teaching science and gifted education and working as a wildlife biologist in Canada and Maryland. She is interested in wildlife observation and has participated in many birding surveys including a 2006 survey of Bald Eagles and Golden Eagles in Highland County, VA.
E-Mail: bearmountain@ntelos.net
Mr. David Riposo is a master’s candidate at the University of Maryland’s Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Science Department. His thesis will explore the efficacy of renewable energy policy and attempt to chart a better course toward a sustainable energy future. He has written about the integrated environmental and economic impacts of Appalachian wind energy developments for the International Society of Ecological Economics. David has five years experience supporting energy and environmental programs at a top-five management consultancy. E-Mail: davidriposo@hotmail.com
Ms. Kim Van Fleet is the Important Bird Area Coordinator and staff biologist with Audubon Pennsylvania. She received her B.S. and M.S. in biology from Shippensburg University where her undergraduate and graduate research focused on diurnal raptor migration across the Ridge and Valley Province of central Pennsylvania. Her interest in hawk migration is still focused on this geographic province. Prior to Audubon she was employed as a biology instructor at both Shippensburg and Penn State (Harrisburg) Universities. She has made numerous presentations about raptor and songbird migration to groups and organizations across the state and currently serves on the board of directors of the Hawk Migration Association of North America. E-Mail: kvanfleet@audubon.org
Mr. Rick Webb is a Senior Scientist with the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, where his primary research focus is on the effects of air pollution on streams associated with forested mountain watersheds in the central Appalachian Mountain region. Previously, he worked with conservation organizations concerned with the direct environmental effects of coal extraction. He recently co-authored a Landscape Classification System for Wind Project Siting in Virginia, and he presently co-maintains the Virginia Wind website (www.VaWind.org), which addresses the need for environmental assessment prior to wind energy development. He is currently serving on a National Research Council committee investigating “Environmental Impacts of Wind Energy.”
E-Mail: rwebb@virginia.edu
Mr. Andrew K. Zadnik is an Environmental Services Biologist with the Wildlife Diversity Division of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. He has served in this position for 2½ years, coordinating the agency’s inter-divisional review of environmental permits and issues affecting Virginia’s wildlife resources. Andy received his Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science from Ferrum College, and his Master’s Degree in Wildlife & Fisheries from West Virginia University, where his thesis addressed wildlife use of riverine and riparian communities of the Ohio River. Prior to graduate school, Andy was a Biologist Assistant with DGIF, specializing in bats, small mammals, and raptors. E-Mail: Andrew.Zadnik@dgif.virginia.gov