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Steve Carver
School of Geography, University of Leeds
Steve is a geographer with specific interests in wilderness, landscape evaluation, environmental modelling and GIS. He has over 15 years experience in mapping and modelling wild landscapes. Steve has worked in the UK, Europe, North America, Greenland and Siberia including work with Natural England, Scottish Natural Heritage, the John Muir Trust, the US Forest Service and various national parks and NGOs. Outside of work he enjoys mountaineering, skiing, mountain biking, photography, woodwork and tinkering with vintage motorcycles.
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Steve Bottoms
Director of the Workshop Theatre, School of English, University of Leeds
Steve is a theatre maker, critic and historian, with particular interests in site-specific performance and its potential as a means of reflecting on, and encouraging public engagement with environmental issues. In 2011-12 he has been principal investigator on an AHRC-supported network project exploring these questions. He is currently developing collaborations with the National Trust at two heritage sites, and developing various interdisciplinary dialogues with geographers and environmentalists.
www.performancefootprint.co.uk |
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Lex Comber
Department of Geography, University of Leicester.
Lex has a background in geocomputation and spatial analysis. He has research interests that stretch from land use, habitats, spatial modelling, accessibility, the representation of geographic objects and processes, uncertainty in spatial data and heuristic optimization to metadata, public health, the spatial analysis of policy and the social construction of geographic information. Lex’s family make fun of him because his hobby is his work. Lex cannot see the problem with this, as he likes most sports and ales as well.
Email: ajc36@le.ac.uk Web: http://www.le.ac.uk/geography/staff/academic_comber.html |
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Steffen Fritz
Steffen currently works at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna, Austria where he has worked on IIASA’s Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the Forestry Program on the GEO-BENE project assessing the benefits of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems. Steffen is work package leader of the EU funded EUROGEOSS projects and is the initiator and co-ordinator of Geo-Wiki.org a global land cover validation tool based on crowdsourcing. He has published reports, book chapters, and peer reviewed papers in the field of earth observation, crowdsourcing, fuzzy logic, remoteness mapping, global and regional vegetation monitoring, crop yield and crop acreage estimations of agricultural crops, and wild land research. His research interests are: Geographical information science, advanced spatial analysis techniques such as fuzzy logic and neural nets, remote sensing and land cover mapping, land cover change, fires and deforestation in the tropics, studies on the distribution of global biomass, crop yield, and crop acreage estimations as well as EO related benefit assessment studies. |
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Zoltan Kun
Executive Director, PAN Parks Foundation
Zoltan is a forestry technician and landscape architect with specific
interest in management of wilderness protected areas. He has over 14 years of experience with management effectiveness evaluation of wilderness areas through working at PAN Parks Foundation. Zoltan has focused his work on
Europe with special interest in Central and Eastern Europe. He has worked
with various organisations like IUCN, WWF and also research institution throughout the continent. He is also member of the WCPA and contributes to the Wilderness Specialist, the Transboundary PA and Tourism Specialist groups. Outside of work he enjoys walking, trekking and swimming with his
family of 4 kids and likes prog rock.
Email: zkun@panparks.org
web: http://www.panparks.org/about-us/team |
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Rob Mc Morran
Centre for Mountain Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands
Rob is an interdisciplinary researcher with experience in both qualitative and GIS methodologies and specific interests in forestry management and policy, land tenure and wild land and re-wilding. Rob's work is primarily Scotland-based, where he has worked with Scottish Natural Heritage, Forestry Commission Scotland, the Scottish national park authorities, the Scottish Countryside Alliance, the John Muir Trust and the Henry Angest Foundation. Outside of work Rob spends his time walking, mountaineering and doing DIY. http://www.perth.ac.uk/specialistcentres/cms/people/Pages/DrRM.aspx |
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Claire Quinn
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
Dr Claire Quinn is an ecological social scientist with over 10 years of experience working on interdisciplinary projects in Africa and the UK. Her research interests lie in the links between ecological and socio-economic processes in the management and conservation of natural resources. She currently works as a Lecturer in Natural Resource Management in the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds. Her current research focuses on the distribution of property rights in multi-resource systems and the implications for management; and livelihood vulnerability and adaptation to environmental change in agricultural communities.
email: c.h.quinn@leeds.ac.uk
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James Tricker
Also Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula, Montana
James received a M.Sc. in GIS from the University of Leeds in 2009, where he became interested in wilderness attribute mapping. For his thesis, he developed a spatial model to identify suitable areas for marine wilderness protection. After a brief stint as an assistant researcher for the Wildland Research Institute, he was contracted to work on a wilderness character mapping project with the Leopold Institute in September 2010. The aim of this on-going project is to develop a spatial model, using 40 data inputs and existing monitoring strategies, to produce a set of maps depicting wilderness character at Death Valley National Park; it will also investigate how different planning alternatives impact spatially on wilderness character quality. James has also worked for the National Trust for Scotland as a GIS officer at various highland estates.
email: jamestricker@hotmail.com
web: http://leopold.wilderness.net/staff/tricker.htm |
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Alan Watson
Also Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula, Montana
Alan came to Forest Service Research in 1988 and has directed the social science program both before and since transformation of the Forest Service Wilderness Research Work Unit to the Leopold Institute. An early career emphasis on monitoring to protect visitor experiences has broadened to include research on ecosystem services, engaging tribal entities in climate change issues, protecting wilderness as a cultural landscape, conflict, trends in use and users, managing special provisions in legislation, and social barriers to ecological restoration, primarily fire. Alan has represented the Leopold Institute three times on Fulbright appointments (Finland, Russia and Brazil), serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Wilderness, and he represents the Leopold Institute and partner agencies on the Executive Committee of the World Wilderness Congress.
email: awatson@fs.fed.us
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