2012 HRES Board of Directors Candidate Election
Cast your vote by COB Tuesday November 2, 2012 at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HRESvote
William (Bill) Dey has been on the HRES Board of Directors for more than a decade, serving in many capacities during his tenure including President. Bill is Vice-president and senior environmental scientist with ASA Analysis & Communication, Inc., an environmental consulting company headquartered in Washingtonville, New York. Bill has more than 35 years of experience in the assessment of environmental impacts in aquatic systems, much of which was focused on the Hudson River Estuary. Over this time, he has directed or participated in many state-of-the-art aquatic monitoring and impact assessment studies throughout the United States.
Karin Limburg, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. Her doctoral thesis from Cornell University (1994) investigated the ecology of emigrating juvenile American shad in the Hudson. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies (now Cary Institute). She has conducted research on a number of other diadromous species in the Hudson River estuary, including river herring, American eel, and striped bass and other fishes. She has also studied the process and consequences of urbanization in the Hudson Valley. As a grad student, Karin was the recipient of Polgar and Hudson River Foundation fellowships; she has since sponsored seven students in the Polgar Fellowship program and one in the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve Fellowship program. She has taught a field course titled "The Hudson River Watershed: Source to Sink in Eight Days," and has taught courses on watershed ecology that use the Hudson as the focus. Karin served on the HRES Board from 1994-1996 and helped to develop a conference on the history of the Hudson River estuary. Her current Hudson River research involves studies to support shad and river herring recovery.
William (Chuck) Nieder has been on the HRES Board of Directors since November 2009. He currently serves as Vice-president on the Executive Committee. Chuck has been a biologist for NYSDEC since 1991 and has focused his career on aquatic resource assessment and protection. He currently works in the Bureau of Habitat in Albany working to minimize the adverse impacts on aquatic resources caused by industry’s use of New York State waters for industrial cooling. Previously, Mr. Nieder held the research coordinator position at the New York State DEC Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve where he worked on aquatic habitat inventory, change and ecological assessment. He developed and managed research and monitoring programs for the Reserve and managed several long-term research and monitoring programs on the Hudson River estuary.
Douglas Robinson, Ph.D.is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Mount Saint Mary College (Newburgh, NY), and teaches animal behavior and human anatomy and physiology. His interests include avian behavioral ecology, natural history, and environmental sustainability. Dr. Robinson has been studying the biology of American crows for the last 12 years and is currently investigating the prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria in crows in the mid-Hudson Valley. In addition to studies in North America, Dr. Robinson also leads study abroad courses to New Zealand.
John Thompson has been on the HRES Board of Directors since November 2009. He currently serves as Secretary on the Executive Committee. John is Director of Conservation Science at Mohonk Preserve's Daniel Smiley Research Center. John performs baseline monitoring of the ecology of the northern Shawangunk Mountains and directs implementation of land management planning to protect and adaptively steward the 7000 acre Mohonk Preserve and promote biodiversity conservation at the landscape scale. John works with researchers and partner organizations to use scientific information to inform conservation throughout the 30,000 acres of protected land in the Shawangunk Mountains. He collects information on weather, flora and fauna and is analyzing those data to look at long-term climate trends and effects on local plants and animals. Other major projects include vegetation studies of prescribed fires, rare species monitoring, and invasive species management. John serves as Vice-president on the John Burroughs Natural History Society Board of Trustees.
Mark Vian has served on the board of HRES since 2007. Mark has worked as a restoration ecologist for the New York City DEP Stream Management Program since 1995, where he helps coordinate community-based watershed plans, geomorphically-based stream restorations, and research and educational programs on water resources issues. Before coming to DEP, he worked as a research associate with the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, and with NGOs facilitating community-based natural resource management and development in Africa and Latin America.