Study
team
The
core study team members (see below) have extensive experience with and/or
have been a collaborator in developing ecological assessment methods
(e.g., Habitat Evaluation Procedure (HEP), Hydrogeomorphic Approach
(HGM), Index of Biological Integrity (IBI)).
The
development of the Compendium is viewed as a collaborative effort that
welcomes input from organizations not directly represented in the Team.
This is an enormous task that can only been done in a spirit cooperation
and we are very pleased at the response and support. We would like to
acknowledge several individuals who, even in the preliminary stages,
offered to share information and/or provide guidance (see list below).
Team
members:
Dr. Candy
Bartoldus, George Mason University (expertise: wetland assessment methods
and wetland ecology)
Ms. Joanna
A. Cornell, George Mason University (expertise: biological assessments,
volunteer stream monitoring programs)
Dr. Adrian Farmer, US Geological Survey (expertise: modeling wildlife
habitat relationships; principal author of the USFWS Habitat Evaluation
Procedure (HEP))
Dr. Bill
Jackson, National Park Service (expertise: hydrology, instream fluvial
processes, watershed management)
Dr. Chris Jones, George Mason University (expertise: stream ecology,
limnology, and water quality studies; bioassessment; effects of watershed
urbanization)
Dr. Bruce Pruitt, Nutter & Associates, Inc. (expertise: watershed
hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, aquatic biomonitoring, and stream/wetland
assessment methods)
Mr. Gary
Smillie, National Park Service (expertise: surface water hydrology,
erosion and sedimentation, open channel hydraulics)
Mr. Eric Somerville, Nutter & Associates, Inc. (expertise: stream/wetland
function assessment methods)
Dr. Eric
Stein, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (expertise:
landscape ecology, watershed analysis and planning, water quality, and
ecological assessment methods)
Dr. Ralph Tiner, University of Massachusetts (expertise: wetlands classification,
mapping, and delineation; remote sensing and watershed assessment)
Mr. Joel Wagner, National Park Service (expertise: wetland restoration
and management)
Contributing participants:
Dr.
Susan Adamowicz, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Dr. Changoo Ahn, George Mason University
Dr. Robert Brumbaugh, US Army Corps of Engineer
Dr. Denice Heller-Wardrope, Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center
Mr. Palmer Hough, US Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Mary Kentula, US Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Jon Kusler, Association of State Wetland Managers
Dr. Jean O'Neil, US Army Corps of Engineers
Dr. Dennis Whigham, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center