Board of Directors

Executive Officers

Steve Whisenant

CHAIR

Texas A&M University
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
College Station, Texas, USA
s-whisenant@tamu.edu

Cara R. Nelson

VICE CHAIR

Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences
College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana
Missoula, Montana, USA
cara.nelson@cfc.umt.edu


Alan Unwin

SECRETARY 

Niagara College
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
aunwin@niagaracollege.ca



Mary Travaglini

TREASURER

Washington D.C. 
marytravaglini@yahoo.com



Representative-at-Large

James Aronson

REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE

Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CNRS-UMR 5175)
Montpellier, France

Missouri Botanical Garden
St. Louis, MO, USA
ja20202@gmail.com


Karen Keenleyside

REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE

Parcs Canada/Parks Canada
Gatineau, Québec, Canada
Karen.Keenleyside@pc.gc.ca




Cheryl Ulrich

REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE

Weston Solutions, Inc.
Atlantic Beach, FL, USA
cheryl.ulrich@westonsolutions.com




Robert Daoust

REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE

Arcadis
Florida, United States
robert.daoust@arcadis-us.com


Thorunn Petursdottir

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE-AT-LARGE

Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Ispra, Italy
thorunn.petursdottir@jrc.ec.europa.eu




Regional Representatives

Clement Ebin

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, AFRICA

African Ecological Restoration Foundation
Abuja, Nigeria, Africa
coebin@yahoo.ca

 

Samira Omar Asem

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, ASIA


Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research 
Food Resources and Biological Sciences Division
somar@kisr.edu.kw




Kris Decleer

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, EUROPE

Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Brussels, Belgium
kris.decleer@inbo.be





Jose Ignacio Barrera Cataño

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias
Bogota, Colombia
barreraj@javeriana.edu.co



Michael Leff

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, NORTHEAST NORTH AMERICA

Philadelphia, PA, USA
leffm@hotmail.com

Stuart Allison

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, MIDWEST NORTH AMERICA

Knox College Galesburg, Illinois USA
sallison@knox.edu

Kingsley Dixon

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, PACIFIC

Kings Park and Botanic GardenWest Perth, Western Australia
kdixon@bgpa.wa.gov.au






Jim Hallett

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, PACIFIC NORTHWEST NORTH AMERICA

Eastern Washington University
Biology Department and Turnball Laboratory for Ecological Studies
Cheney, WA, USA
jhallett@ewu.edu

 

Carolyn Jane Browning

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, ROCKY MOUNTAINS/GREAT PLAINS NORTH AMERICA

Mountain Rivers Institute, CO, USA
carolyn@mountain-rivers-institute.org




Judy Haner

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, SOUTHEAST U.S.

The Nature Conservancy
Mobile, Alabama, USA
jhaner@tnc.org

John T. Stanley

WESTERN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE

WWW RESTORATION
Boulder Creek, California, USA
jtstanley@comcast.net