Bill has been active in ARC since its founding and, together with several others, leads the UMP-GIS project initiated by ARC. He is Director of SUNY-ESF’s Adirondack Ecological Center, Director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station and Professor of Wildlife Ecology. He is past Executive Chairman of the Faculty at SUNY-ESF. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota in Ecology and Behavioral Biology.

Brian is currently a full professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. He has been on the faculty at Cornell for 32 years and was on the faculty at the University of New Hampshire prior to that. He holds a B.S. degree from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. in botany from Duke University. His general area of expertise is plant ecology specializing in the interaction of plants with their environment. A significant part of his academic career has been spent in administrative leadership rolls. These include chairperson of his department, Director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station, Associate Director and Director for Research of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Senior Associate Dean and acting Dean of the College. Following 18 years of college leadership, Professor Chabot has returned to a faculty role where he teaches introductory courses in ecology and directs the Cornell Maple Program. The Cornell Maple Program involves conducting research and education programs for the maple sugar industry in New York and managing two research and education facilities.

 

Dan is currently the Supervisor of the Resource Analysis and Scientific Services unit at the NYS Adirondack Park Agency and has been an Agency staff scientist for 21 years. He has an M.S. degree in Environmental and Forest Biology from SUNY ESF. Dan has been an adjunct lecturer at SUNY Plattsburgh for the course "Wetlands Ecology and Management" and regularly guest lectures at Cornell University and Paul Smith's College on wetlands ecology and landscape scale environmental assessment. He is a Society of Wetland Scientists certified Professional Wetland Scientist, and holds memberships in the SWS, Ecological Society of America, the New York Flora Association and the Dragonfly Society of the Americas.

Eileen has been Secretary/Treasurer of the Adirondack Research Consortium since 2003. She teaches Introduction to GIS at Plattsburgh State University of NY. Since 1991, she has been mapping wetlands and watersheds in the Adirondacks, involving numerous undergraduates in research using remote sensing and GIS techniques. She earned her MA in Natural Resources at Plattsburgh State University and is one of the first certified GIS professionals in New York State.

S. Jeffrey Anthony - Jeff is a practicing landscape architect and president of The LA Group, Landscape Architects, Engineers and Environmental Scientists. Jeff has 36 years experience with land planning in the Adirondack Park. Jeff was also chairman of the Town of Greenfield, Saratoga County, Zoning Board of Appeals for ten years, and is currently a member of the Town of Bolton, Warren County, Zoning Board of Appeals. Both towns are in the Adirondack Park.

Tom was born and brought up in Queens, NY. He graduated from Manhattan College with a degree in Civil Engineering. Tom worked for 44 years for the Cazenovia, NY based environmental engineering firm of Stearns and Wheeler, LLC., specializing in the area of water supply. Tom last held the position of President and CEO of the company. He also served as Chairman of the Board for both S&W Services an environmental construction and remediation company, and S&W Redevelopment specializing in the cleanup of brownfields. Tom has also been involved in innovative approaches to waste management and the reclamation of energy from the process. Tom is a Trustee and Past Chairman on the College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Board of Trustees. He has a deep interest and passion for the Adirondacks. 

Dan has 22 years experience working in both the commercial and government sector in environmental and land use planning in the Adirondacks, across New York State, throughout the US, and internationally.  He currently is Manager of Environmental Planning for Ecology and Environment, Inc (an 800 person environmental and engineering company headquartered in Lancaster, NY) and is responsible for all Planning and Business Development activities in the Northeast Region of the US.  His work experience includes managing Environmental Impact Assessments (under SEQR and NEPA) and related studies/permitting involving land development, natural resources management planning, Brownfield redevelopment, transportation and port infrastructure, solid waste management planning, Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) studies, waterfront development, ecological restoration, eco-tourism studies, and commercial/industrial development projects around the country.  Internationally, Mr. Castle's work experience includes watershed planning and management in China; siting wastewater treatment plants in Ireland; and transportation infrastructure in South America.  Mr. Castle has a BA degree in Biology and Environmental Studies from Hartwick College in Oneonta NY (1983), and a MS Degree in Environmental Science/Land Use Planning from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse (1985). 

 

Graham works for Audubon New York as coordinator of forestry and open space programs. He recently completed a community-based research survey across the Northern Forest for the University of Vermont, examining investment priorities with focus groups convened in four towns, Parkwide and across the four Northern Forest states. He retired from state service in 1997 after working in the environmental conservation department, the economic development department and finally with the Assembly ways and means committee staff.  He provides occasional advice to DEC on open space, Forest Legacy and Forest Preserve issues and also to the US Forest Service on sustainable forest management criteria and indicators. He has a Masters degree from RPI in economics, a Ph.D. in ecological economics, also from RPI, and is a charter member of the US Society for Ecological Economics.

Jon is a founding member, past vice president (1998-2000), president (2000-2002) and organizer of the third, seventh, and eighth annual meetings of the ARC. He is currently serving as editor of AJES. He initiated and maintained the Adirondack Research Consortium’s original web page and listserv from 1994 to 2003, first at Cornell University and then Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is currently Associate Professor of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont, and is coordinating a project of the Northeastern States Research Cooperative entitled "Bottom-Up Strategies for Bio-Regional Policy: Designing Participatory Processes in Legislative Policy Formation" and co-editing a book on the Adirondacks with Bill Porter and Ross Whaley.

 

Jerry Pepper is director of the library at the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, New York since 1982.   The museum library owns a large collection of historical books, maps, manuscripts, periodicals, audio recordings, and ephemera relating to the Adirondack Park. While at the museum Jerry had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of exhibits, publications, lectures, public programs, and Internet-based projects. He also serves or has served on the boards of the Southern Adirondack Library System, the Northern New York Library Network, Adirondack Architectural Heritage, and has been a consultant for a number of libraries, museums, and government agencies. 

 

Bob has extensive experience in natural resources management and policy. Recently retired from International Paper, he held positions in his 18 year career with the company as Manager of Sustainability at global headquarters in Memphis, TN and as Regional Manager Public Affairs in Albany, NY. He helped negotiate the state’s largest conservation easement on company Adirondack lands and developed International Paper John Dillon Park for people with disabilities. He developed the company’s sustainability mission and helped incorporate sustainability into business practice. In previous positions, Bob served 5 years as executive vice president of the Empire State Forest Products Association representing New York’s forest industry and landowners, and 5 years with the Tug Hill Commission as natural resource policy analyst.   He holds a Masters degree in Natural Resource Management and Policy from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and a Bachelors degree in Economics from Union College.

Liz has served as ARC Vice President from 2003 to 2006 and as President from 2006-2008. She served for fifteen and a half years as a commissioner of the Adirondack Park Agency and seven years as a trustee of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks. She is currently a board member of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). She has a PhD in the field of Natural Resource Policy and Planning from Cornell University where she is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of City and Regional Planning.

 

Joe recently retired, after 26 years of service to New York State, from the R&D Director position with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). In that position, Joe was responsible for programs dealing with renewable energy, transportation, power systems, environmental technology and research. He also directed the NYS Renewable Portfolio Standard program for large scale renewable energy. In his career, Joe has held several positions with NYSERDA, DEC, and DOT. Joe is a graduate of Clarkson University with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Purdue University. In 1974, Joe was a member of the Peace Corps specializing in air pollution and urban planning in Chile.

 

Since October of 2007 Dr. Whaley has served as Senior Advisor to the Adirondack Land Owners Association. He started this position after serving the Governor of New York as Chairman of the Adirondack Park Agency for four years. He brought to these positions more than 30 years experience as a university teacher, researcher and administrator. He also served as Director of Economics Research for the US Forest Service for 6 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in forestry and a PhD in natural resource economics from the University of Michigan. From1984-2005 Dr. Whaley was associated with the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 16 years as its President and subsequently as University Professor. As Professor his interest focused on the political economy of sustainable development. Ross Whaley has served as a consultant to or member of several state, national, and international commissions devoted to natural resource and environmental issues. In recognition of these activities he has been awarded the Pinchot Medallion by the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, the Professional Conservationist Award by the New York Conservation Council, the Heiberg Memorial Award by the New York Forest Owners Association, and Honor Alumnus of Colorado State University.

 

Thomas C. Young has served as Clarkson University Provost since April 2005. In that role, Dr. Young oversees the development and enhancement of Clarkson’s academic programs and research endeavors. He works closely with the University deans and interdisciplinary center directors to implement Clarkson’s long-range planning initiatives and engage the University’s constituents in these initiatives as they unfold.  Dr. Young also oversees the operation of the University Library, the Clarkson Honors Program & School, and the Division of Research and Technology Transfer. Dr. Young joined the University in 1977, was named Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1999, and accepted the post of Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering in 2004.  While he was a faculty member in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, he led or collaborated on research projects related to water quality in freshwater systems with an emphasis on environmental contaminants, including contaminant fate and transport modeling in aquatic systems, fluvial load estimation, uncertainty and sensitivity analyses for water quality models, and applied environmental statistics. Young has more than 175 professional presentations and over 100 peer-reviewed articles and technical publications to his credit, is a past recipient of the Chandler-Misener Award from the International Association for Great Lakes Research, and has twice received the Excellence in Engineering Education Award from MWH Soft. Dr. Young received a B.A. degree in fisheries biology and an M.S. degree in sanitary engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He received his Ph.D. degree in fisheries and wildlife from Michigan State University. Between his undergraduate and graduate education, Dr. Young served on active duty with the US Army as an infantry lieutenant; his assignments included a tour in Viet Nam, where he received the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and the Bronze Star medal.

 

Daniel Fitts, Executive Director

Dan was raised in Rouses Point, NY on the shore of Lake Champlain. He received a B.A. in Environmental Science from Plattsburgh State University, and earned a M.S. in Environmental Science with a focus on public policy and government at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY where he is currently on that school’s Board of Trustees. He has worked in the New York State Senate as a legislative director to Senator Ronald B. Stafford, and at the Adirondack Park Agency as Supervisor of Administrative Services and Executive Director.