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Steering Committee Membership

Officers March 2013

Past-President Timothy Maret, PhD, Shippensburg University, tjmare@ship.edu

President Robert Criswell, PA Game Commission, retired, rob_criswell@comcast.net

President-Elect Roger Latham, PhD, rel@continentalconservation.us

Treasurer Greg Czarnecki, PA DCNR

Secretary Betsy Leppo, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, BLeppo@paconserve.org

Immediate Past President Carolyn Mahan, PhD, Penn State Altoona, cgm2@psu.edu; 814-949-5530

Members-at-Large (up to 10)—no alternate may be sent

  1. Charles Bier (Western Pennsylvania Conservancy)
  2. Greg Czarnecki (Wild Resource Conservation Program)
  3. John Rawlins, PhD (Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
  4. Jon Gelhaus, PhD (Academy of Natural Sciences)
  5. Sarah Sargent, PhD (Audubon)
  6. Carolyn Mahan, PhD (Penn State Altoona)
  7. Jerry Hassinger (Past President)
  8. Frank Felbaum (Past President)
  9. Diana Day & Cathy Haffner (Wildlife Grants, Wildlife Action Plan)
  10. Scott Bearer, PhD (The Nature Conservancy)

Government Agencies—alternates may be sent

  1. Sven Spichiger (PA Department of Agriculture)
  2. Chris Urban (PA Fish and Boat Commission)
  3. Dan Bogar (PA Department of Environmental Protection)
  4. Dan Brauning (PA Game Commission)
  5. Jeff Wagner & Greg Podniesinski, PhD (PA Natural Heritage Program)
  6. Greg Czarnecki (PA DCNR)
  7. Jennifer Siani, PhD (US Fish and Wildlife Service)

Standing Committees – alternates may be sent

  1. Ephraim Zimmerman (Community Classification)
  2. Greg Czarnecki (Climate Change)

Technical Committees –alternates may be sent

  1. Jane Earle (Aquatic Arthropods)
  2. Charles Bier (Arachnids)
  3. Scott Schuette (Bryophytes and Lichens)
  4. Dave Argent, PhD (Fishes)
  5. Sandy Whidden, PhD & Reg Hoyt, PhD (Mammals)
  6. Elizabeth Meyer (Mollusks)
  7. Margaret Brittingham, PhD (Ornithology)
  8. Barrie Overton, PhD (Protists and Fungi)
  9. Howard Reinert, PhD (Reptiles and Amphibians)
  10. Betsy Leppo (Terrestrial Arthropods)
  11. Bonnie Isaac (Vascular Plants)