Working Groups

The Working Groups are responsible for revising or selecting indicators for a specific ecological topic, assessing potential data sources, and contributing to report contents.

Air Quality Working Group

Larry F. Greene, Chair, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
William L. Chameides, Environmental Defense Fund
Jeanette E. Clute, Ford Motor Company
Mark Cohen, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Kenneth A. Colburn, Symbiotic Strategies, LLC
Charles T. Driscoll, Jr., Syracuse University
Joyce E. Epps, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Howard J. Feldman, American Petroleum Institute
Charles H. Goodman, Southern Company
Timothy G. Hunt, American Forest and Paper Association
Martha Keating, Clean Air Task Force
Anne Rea (Alternate), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
John Trajnowski (Alternate), Ford Motor Company
Randall G. Waite, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Biological Community Conditions Working Group

Patrick Comer, NatureServe
Curtis H. Flather, USDA Forest Service
Robert Goldstein, Electric Power Research Institute
Root Gorelick, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Dennis Grossman, Consultant (formerly with NatureServe)
Charles P. Hawkins, Utah State University
Brian J. Kernohan, Forest Capital Partners, LLC
Craig Loehle, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc.
Ellen Natesan, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Deborah Neher, University of Vermont
Gordon Orians, University of Washington
Duncan Patten, Montana State University
Taylor Ricketts, World Wildlife Fund
Michael Rosenzweig, University of Arizona
John Stoddard, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Terry Young, Environmental Defense Fund

Coastal Pattern Working Group

Susan Bell, University of South Florida
Tundi Agardy, Sound Seas
Jimmy Johnston, U.S. Geological Survey (retired)
Richard Lathrop, Rutgers University
Thomas Minello, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Gerald Niemi, University of Minnesota Duluth
Charles Simenstad, University of Washington
Drew Talley, San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and University of California Davis
Roman Zajac, University of New Haven

Ecosystem Services Working Groups

Jill Baron, Colorado State University and U.S. Geological Survey
William C. Clark, Harvard University
Christopher Field, Carnegie Institution of Washington and Stanford University
Geoffrey Heal, Columbia Business School
Carolyn Kousky, Harvard University
Jerry Melillo, The Marine Biological Laboratory
Robert Naiman, University of Washington
Gordon Orians, University of Washington
Margaret A. Palmer, University of Maryland
Alexander S. P. Pfaff, Columbia University
Steven W. Running, University of Montana
Osvaldo E. Sala, Brown University
José Sarukhán, Ciudad Universitaria (Mexico)
George M. Woodwell, Woods Hole Research Center

Non-native Species Working Group

Ann M. Bartuska, Chair, USDA Forest Service
Jerome Beatty, USDA Forest Service
Faith Campbell, The Nature Conservancy
Gabriela Chavarria, Defenders of Wildlife
Chris Dionigi, National Invasive Species Council
Pam Fuller, U.S. Geological Survey
Nelroy E. Jackson, Monsanto (retired)
Terri Killeffer, Information International Associates, Inc. (formerly NatureServe)
Richard N. Mack, Washington State University
Gary C. Matlock, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sarah Reichard, University of Washington
Peter M. Rice, University of Montana
Gregory Ruiz, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Thomas Stohlgren, U.S. Geological Survey
David Thomas, Illinois Natural History Survey

Landscape Pattern Working Group

Norman Christensen, Chair, Duke University
G. Thomas Bancroft, National Audubon Society (formerly The Wilderness Society)
Susan S. Bell, University of South Florida
Rick Brown, Defenders of Wildlife
Chris Frissell, Pacific Rivers Council
Sharon Haines (deceased), International Paper
Dan Heagerty, David Evans and Associates
K. Bruce Jones, U.S. Geological Survey
A. J. Jordan, Halderman Farm Management Service, Inc.
John Kupfer, University of South Carolina
James A. LaGro, Jr., University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kurt Riitters, USDA Forest Service
Gary J. Roloff, Michigan State University (formerly with Boise Cascade Corporation)
Ed Thompson, Jr., American Farmland Trust
Agency Liaison
John Gross, National Park Service

Stream Flows Working Group

Colin Apse, The Nature Conservancy
Leo Eisel, Brown and Caldwell
Glenn Hodgkins, U.S. Geological Survey
Harry Lins, U.S. Geological Survey
Duncan Patten, Montana State University
N. LeRoy Poff, Colorado State University
Richard Vogel, Tufts University
David Wolock, U.S. Geological Survey