Center for State of the Parks Advisory Council
The Center for State of the Parks has an advisory council comprised of both natural and cultural resource experts who bring with them a vast array of knowledge and experience. The council serves to promote and ensure the program's success by giving guidance and suggestions to help the program to grow and evolve in the right direction. The following are members of the advisory council:
DR. DOROTHY CANTER, Laurel, MD
Dr. Dorothy Canter is a senior professional biophysicist at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. From November 2001 through June 2005, she served as the Chief Scientist for Bioterrorism Issues in the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She participated in the overall cleanup process for the Capitol Hill Anthrax Site. Based upon the lessons learned from that cleanup, she contributed actively to the implementation of more stringent criteria for future cleanups, including the fumigation of the Brentwood and Trenton postal facilities. She served as co-chair of the Technical Working Group (TWG) for the remediation of the Department of State mail facility. She also served as co-Chair of the TWG for the remediation of the AMI Building in Boca Raton, FL. Based upon these experiences, she has developed unique expertise in biothreat agent decontamination of facilities and essential items. During the last year, she has been actively engaged in activities for the protection of critical infrastructure. In particular, she was a key organizer for the June 2005 Airport Preparedness Workshop and has worked on airport protection issues since then. She served on the organizing committee for the first and second environmental sampling conferences on biothreat agents and contributed a chapter to the book to be published on the first conference in the near future. Dr. Canter has published widely in the peer-reviewed literature and given numerous lectures at national and international meetings on anthrax decontamination, residual risk and preparedness activities.
Her government career spanned 29 years. She worked at EPA for a total of 15 years, serving until 2001 as the OSWER Science Policy Advisor. She served as an expert on incineration risk assessment and peer review of highly controversial scientific and technical issues. In 2001 she had a nine-month detail to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, where she worked for the Environment Division, preparing toxicity test guidelines. Prior to joining EPA, she served for ten years as Assistant to the Director, National Toxicology Program, and served on the Toxicology Design Review Committee. She also worked for four years at the Consumer Product Safety Commission, evaluating the toxic effects of chemicals in consumer products. Dr. Canter received both a B.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in biophysics from The George Washington University.
An avid supporter of the National Park System, she served for nine years on the board of trustees of NPCA, and is currently a member of the National Council. She also served on the Council of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
DR. SYLVIA EARLE, Oakland, CA
Sylvia A. Earl is an oceanographer with a B.S. degree from Florida State University (1955), M.S. and PhD. from Duke University (1956, 1966) and honorary degrees from the Monterey Institute (1990), Ball State University (1991), Washington College (1992), Duke University (1993), Ripon College (1994), University of Connecticut (1994), University of Rhode Island (1996), Plymouth State College (1996), Simmons College (1997), Florida International University (1998), and St. Norbert’s College (1998). She was Curator Of Phycology at the California Academy of Sciences (1979-1986) and a Research Associate at the University of California Berkeley (1969-1981), Radcliff Institute Scholar (1967-1969) and Research Fellow or Associate at Harvard University (1967-1981). From 1980 to 1984 she served on the President’s Advisory Committee on Ocean and Atmosphere (1980-194). In 1990 she was appointed as Chief Scientist of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) where she served until 1992. In 1992 she founded Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (D O E R), to design, operate, support and consult on manned and robotic sub sea systems.
FRANCISCO DALLMEIER, Ph.D, Washington, DC
Francisco Dallmeier was born in Caracas, Venezuela. His interest in biology carried him from extensive fieldwork with the Institute of Tropical Zoology in Venezuela to the Smithsonian’s Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity Program (MAB).
In addition to his responsibilities as Director of the Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity Program, Dr. Dallmeier was appointed Interim Director of the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives in September 2002, and head of the National Zoo’s Science Commission Task Force in January 2003.
He is author, co-author, or editor of more than 130 publications, including a remarkable two-volume study of forest biodiversity in the “old and “new” worlds published in England, a special issue of the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment devoted to the MAB Program’s Peruvian project, and a delightfully illustrated educational book for young people on biodiversity in the rainforest.
Dr. Dallmeier earned his B.S. in biology from the Central University of Venezuela and his M.S. and Ph.D degrees also in biology, from Colorado State University. He spends his free time hiking and scuba diving with his wife and two children and participating in projects at his children’s school. He also hones his skills as a professional photographer.
DR. GLENN E. HAAS, Fort Collins, CO
Glenn E. Haas is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University and partner in the land use planning firm of Aukerman, Haas, and Associates. He has competency in natural resource planning and policy, park and recreation planning and management, administrative decision making, and visitor capacity analysis.
Glenn has twice served on the national board of the National Society for Park Resources (1986-1990, 2003-2006) and six years on the national board of the National Parks Conservation Association (1992-1998), including three years as the vice-chair. He was the Chairman of the Department of Recreation Resources and Tourism at Colorado State University from 1987-1997. He is currently serving as the President of the Board for the National Association of Recreation Resource Planners in 2007-09.
He has an extensive working relationship with state and federal public land and water management agencies and is relied on as an expert witness and consultant related to NEPA-compliant planning, estimating future recreation demand, and recreation carrying capacity. In 1980-81, he worked in the national office of the U.S. Forest Service and drafted the agency policy on limits of acceptable change (LAC) and worked to advance the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum system. In 2000-2002, Glenn worked as a special advisor for the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks in the U.S. Department of the Interior, during which time he chaired of the Federal Interagency Task Force on Visitor Capacity on Public Lands and Waters involving the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and Bureau of Land Management. Since 2002, Glenn has worked closely with the Bureau of Reclamation in developing of the Water Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (WROS) system as a means for the recreation profession to inventory, plan, and manage water-based recreation opportunities. He also recently completed a manager’s guidebook on estimating future recreation demand.
BRUCE D. JUDD, FAIA San Francisco, CA
A founding principal of the Architectural Resources Group, a San Francisco and Pasadena based cultural resources consulting firm, Bruce has directed over 200 planning, rehabilitation, and expansion projects for architecturally significant buildings throughout the west and is a nationally recognized expert. He has led rehabilitation and new construction projects for numerous library, cultural, and performing arts facilities. He has also directed high-profile projects, including the award-winning repair and restoration of the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, completion of a $70 million seismic retrofit and restoration of the Beaux-Arts style City Hall in Pasadena, and the restoration work at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. Bruce brings extensive experience with the application of The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Preservation. For eight years he was a President-appointed Expert Member of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the federal agency that oversees and advises on national preservation matters, and recently participated on the Committee on Preservation and Security for the White House and Capitol. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Bruce meets the The Secretary of the Interior’s Historic Preservation Professional Qualifications Standards in Architecture, Historic Architecture, Architectural History and History.
KARL KOMATSU, Fort Worth, TX
Mr. Komatsu is president of Komatsu, Inc. a diversified firm in Fort Worth, Texas. Agency review and support jurisdictions under which many of the firm's programs have been developed include The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; U.S. Department of Transportation; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; U.S. Park Service; U.S. General Services Administration and the U.S. Department of Justice. From a professional architectural and planning experience basis, Mr. Komatsu has participated in programs in various locations from Washington, DC to Hawaii, Saipan and Puerto Rico. Sensitivity to the specific local factors involved has assisted his inclusion in facilitating mitigation issues, as well as providing consultation and technical architectural and planning services to private sector as well as federal agencies. Mr. Komatsu has also been involved in historic preservation and architectural environmental design programs. Mr. Komatsu served on the National Trust for Historic Preservation National Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2005; and on the National Parks Conservation Association National Board of Trustees from 2000 to 2006. He was a George H.W. Bush Administration appointee to the National Parks System Advisory Board; and chaired the National Performance Review of Historic Preservation Fund Programs and was appointed to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Committee under then Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt in the Clinton Administration. He was appointed by Governor Clements to the Texas Historical Commission in 1987 to a six year term and was reappointed by Governor Richards for a two year unexpired term to guide the agency through its Sunset Review serving as chairman from 1991 to 1995.
THOMAS E. LOVEJOY, Washington, DC
Thomas Lovejoy is currently the President of The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment (a non-profit institution dedicated to improving the scientific and economic foundation for environmental policy through multi-sectoral collaboration among industry, government, academia, and environmental organizations). In the past, he served as Chief Biodiversity Advisor and Lead Specialist for the Environment for the Latin American region for the World Bank, as the Senior Advisor to the President of the United Nations Foundation, as the Assistant Secretary for Environmental and External Affairs for the Smithsonian Institution, and as Executive Vice President of World Wildlife Fund-US. He retains his link with the Smithsonian as a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He conceived the idea for the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems project, originated the concept of debt-for-nature swaps, and is the founder of the public television series Nature. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. (biology) from Yale University, is past president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, past chairman of the United States Man and Biosphere Program, and past president of the Society for Conservation Biology. In 1998, Brazil awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Scientific Merit. In April 2001 he received the John & Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. He serves on numerous scientific and conservation boards and advisory groups including: the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Botanical Garden, Institute for Ecosystem Studies, Wildlife Trust, Woods Hole Research Center, and the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.
PAMELA A. MATSON, Palo Alto, CA
Pamela Matson is the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, the Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, and McMurtry Fellow for Undergraduate Education. She is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Woods Institute for the Environment, both at Stanford University. Her research interests include ecological and biogeochemical responses to agricultural intensification, climate change, and nitrogen deposition, and the interactions among decision-making and environmental issues in developing regions. She was an early contributor to the international global change research program, serving in leadership positions in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program and Projects, and on the National Academy Board on Global Change. She has more recently been a leader in efforts to harness science and technology for sustainable development, serving as a member of the National Academies Board on Sustainable Development and as the founding chair of the National Academies Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. Her contributions have been recognized through election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and as a recipient of a MacArthur Prize. She served as president of the Ecological Society of America and currently serves as the founding editor of the Annual Review of Environment and Resources. She is a trustee of the World Wildlife Fund (US) and the National Park Conservation Association.
ROBERT J. MELNICK, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Z. Melnick is a nationally recognized expert in cultural landscape evaluation and historic landscape preservation planning. A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Robert has published widely on theoretical and practical issues relating to cultural and historic landscapes. He has served as lead and consultant for projects in states across the country, and his written works and professional projects have received numerous national awards. Among other publications, he is co-editor of Preserving Cultural Landscapes in American (John Hopkins University Press: 2000). He regularly lectures at universities and professional meetings.
Robert is past Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon, and currently serves as a Visiting Senior Program Officer at the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles. He is a member of the Board of the Oregon Council for the Humanities, past co-chair of the Preservation Technology and Board, for the National center for Preservation Technology and Training, national Park Service, and a founding member and past president of the Alliance of Historic Landscape Preservation.
DR. KENTON MILLER, Washington, DC
Dr. Miller has had a long and distinguished career. He was Director General of the World Conservation union (IUCN) from 1983 to 1988, served as Chair of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas from 1976 to 1982 and again from 2000 to 2004 and served on the IUCN Council during the same period. He served as Secretary General for the Third World Conference on National Parks (1982, Bali, Indonesia). He further served as Chair for planning the Fourth (1992, Caracas, Venezuela) and the Firth 2003, (Durban South Africa) World National Parks Congresses. From 1988 to 1992 he lead the cooperative IUCN/WRI/UNEP program that produced the Global Biodiversity Strategy that provided guidance to delegations during the negotiation of the Convention on Biological Diversity. He has received numerous international awards and two honorary doctorates for his role in developing methods for the planning and management of national parks and protected areas, for developing the concept of “wildland management,” for the concept of “categories of management of protected areas,” now employed by countries throughout the world, and shaping the international protected areas agenda. His career has taken him to activities throughout Latin America, Africa, Asia and briefly to Antarctica. He has been a university professor, field researcher and author and recently retired as vice president for conservation and development at the World resources Institute (WRI). He presently manages his forest farm in West Virginia, continue to write, and serves as Senior Advisor to IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas.
Dr. Kenton Miller was awarded the Bruno H. Schubert Environment Prize, considered to be one of the most prestigious awards of its kind in the world in 2005. He was awarded the prize for his lifetime achievements in conservation, particularly his pioneering work in protected area development and management.
ROGER SAYRE, PH.D, Reston, VA
Roger Sayre is a forest and ecosystems ecologist by training (Ph.D. Cornell University; MS Pennsylvania State University; BS University of California, Riverside). He led the Conservation Science Department of the International Program of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for 13 years before joining the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 2005. While at TNC, Roger conducted many Rapid Ecological Assessments in Latin America and the Caribbean, and wrote the industry standard book on this biodiversity assessment methodology (Sayre et al., 2000, Nature in Focus-Rapid Ecological Assessment, Island Press). He developed tools and techniques for ecoregional conservation planning, and developed a methodology for delineating robust, standardized, practical ecosystems at management-appropriate scales. At USGS, Roger has continued to pursue an ecosystem geography focus. In 2007, he concluded work with a small team of scientists to develop a new 10 year Science Strategy for USGS, which calls for a new focus on ecosystems as one of six core strategic science directions. Roger is currently leading an effort to produce a new map of standardized ecosystems for the United States at a meso-scale which is finer than any previous ecoregionalization of the nation. Due to his experience in mapping standardized ecosystems over continental regions, Roger was recently designated as a GEOSS (Global Earth Observation Systems of Systems – an intergovernmental protocol) Task Lead to produce a standardized, robust, meso-scale classification and map of the planet's terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. For this effort, he has recently travelled to China and Africa to launch GEOSS ecosystem mapping over those large regions.
DR. WILLIAM H. SCHLESINGER, Millbrook, NY
On 1 June 2007, William H. Schlesinger was named President of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, a private ecological research institute on the grounds of the Cary Arboretum in Millbrook, NY. He assumed this position after 27 years on the faculty of Duke University. Completing his A.B. at Dartmouth (1972), and Ph.D. at Cornell (1976), he moved to Duke in 1980, where he retired in spring 2007 as Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and as James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry.
He is the author or coauthor of over 180 scientific papers on subjects of environmental chemistry and global change and the widely-adopted textbook Biogeochemistry: An analysis of global change (Academic Press, 2nd ed. 1997). He was among the first to quantify the amount of carbon held in soil organic matter globally, providing subsequent estimates of the role of soils and human impacts on forests and soils in global climate change.
He was elected a member of The National Academy of Sciences in 2003, and was President of the Ecological Society of America for 2003-2004. He is also a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, and the Soil Science Society of America.
His past work has taken him to diverse habitats, ranging from Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia to the Mojave Desert of California, and three times as a Duke alumni tour guide to Antarctica. His research has been featured on NOVA, CNN, NPR, and on the pages of Discover, National Geographic, The New York Times, and Scientific American. Schlesinger has testified before U.S. House and Senate Committees on a variety of environmental issues, including preservation of desert habitats, global climate change and carbon sequestration.
Schlesinger currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (New York) and the Southern Environmental Law Center (Charlottesville) and on the Board of Scientific Advisors for Terrapass LLC (San Francisco).
He and his wife, Lisa, live in Millbrook, where they enjoy birdwatching, gourmet cooking, and collecting southwestern art.
LEE M. TALBOT, PH.D, McLean, VA
Dr. Talbot is an ecologist and geographer, specialist in international environmental affairs, ecology, environmental policies and institutions, conservation biology and natural resource management, with over 45 years of professional environmental experience, approximately half spent working on environmental issues in 128 countries outside the
U. S. When not at GMU he is president of Lee Talbot Associates, advisors on environment and development; and a Senior Environmental Consultant or Advisor to the World Bank, the Asian and Inter-American Development Banks, U. N. bodies, governments and universities. Formerly Director-General of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), he also held the position of environmental advisor to three U. S. Presidents, and was head of environmental sciences at the Smithsonian Institution. The first Staff Ecologist of the IUCN, he subsequently, with his biologist wife, spent over six years conducting pioneering ecological research on the Serengeti-Mara Plains of East Africa. He has served on over 20 committees and panels of the National Academy of Sciences. Author of over 250 scientific, technical and popular publications including 17 books and monographs, with some translations in nine foreign languages, he has received national and international awards and recognition for his scientific accomplishments, environmental work, popular and scientific writing, and documentary film. He was cited as “an acknowledged leader in the shaping of national and international environmental policies and principles” when receiving the Distinguished Service Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
