Odum Conference 2009 Speakers
Bernd Blossey, Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University and Director of the Ecology and Management of Invasive Plants Program at Cornell University
Jerry Carlson, Research Scientist, Lands and Forests'
Forest Health Office, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Joan Ehrenfeld, Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, and Director,
New Jersey Water Resources Institute
David Finnoff, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming
Brooke Gebow, Southeastern Arizona Preserves Manager, The Nature Conservancy
Deborah Goldberg, Elzada U. Clover Collegiate Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Jessica Gurevitch, Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolution, SUNY Stony Brook
Claus Holzapfel, Assistant Professor, Federated Departments of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University
Tim Howard, Director of Science,
New York Natural Heritage Program
Reuben Keller, Center for Aquatic Conservation, University of Notre Dame
Andrew Liebhold, Research Entomologist,
Ecology and Management of Invasive Species and Forest Ecosystems, USDA
Forest Service
Laura Meyerson, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island
Charles Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina
Hilary Smith, Coordinator, Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program, The Nature Conservancy – Adirondack Chapter
Petr Pyšek, Chair,
Department of Invasion Ecology, and Deputy Director of the
Institute of Botany of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
John Randall, Director,The Nature Conservancy Global Invasive Species Team, and Director, TNC Wildland Invasive Species Team
Marcel Rejmánek, Professor of Ecology, University of California, Davis
Tony Ricciardi, Associate Professor, Redpath Museum, McGill University
Julie Richburg, Regional Ecologist, The Trustees of Reservations
Steven Sanford, Director,
Office of Invasive Species Coordination at New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
John Silander, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut; Manager, Invasive Plant Atlas of New England
Annie Simpson, Coordinator and Invasive Species Information Node Manager at the US National Biological Information Infrastructure, USGS
Thomas Stohlgren, Branch Chief for Invasive Species Science, Fort Collins Science Center, USGS
David Strayer, Aquatic Ecologist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY
Meg Wilkinson, National Coordinator, iMapInvasives; Invasive Species Database Coordinator,
New York Natural Heritage Program