The AMC's resident experts are excellent resources for commentary on timely conservation, education, and recreation issues central to our mission. To coordinate an interview with an AMC spokesperson, please contact our media specialists. Conservation - Air Quality and Watershed Science (Haze, Ozone, Acid Rain) – Georgia Murray, Staff Scientist
- Conservation Policy and State/Federal Conservation Funding – Susan Arnold, Director of Conservation
- Dam Relicensing and Alpine Ecosystems – Kenneth Kimball, Ph.D., Director of Research
- Forest Ecology, Roadless Areas, and Sustainable Forestry – David Publicover, D.F., Senior Staff Scientist/Assistant Director of Research
- Mapping and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) – Larry Garland, Cartographer
- Trails Protection and Stewardship – Heather Clish, Deputy Director of Conservation
- White Mountain National Forest (NH), Northern Forest (ME, NH, VT, NY), and Maine Woods Issues – Bryan Wentzell, Northern Forest/Maine Woods Advocate
Education, Recreation and Mountain Safety - AMC Huts and Hermit Lake Shelters, Search and Rescue, and Outdoor Safety – Eric Pedersen, Huts Manager
- Outdoor Leadership, Education and Skills (K-12, Urban Youth Programs), No Child Left Inside campaign, Volunteerism, and Outdoor Recreation Trends – Pam Hess, Director of Education Programs
- Trails Usage Trends – Heather Clish, Deputy Director of Conservation
Bryan Wentzell, Northern Forest/Maine Woods Advocate Areas of Expertise: Northern Forest and Maine Woods conservation issues, specifically land conservation and land use; Maine Woods Initiative, including community and economic development, nature tourism development, federal and state conservation funding, and general Maine conservation issues.
Education/Credentials: - B.A., Environmental Studies, Middlebury College
- Environmental Leadership Institute (League of Conservation Voters)
- Leadership Maine graduate, Omicron Class
- Private pilot, instrument and seaplane ratings
Memberships and Affiliations: - Member, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and Seaplane Pilots Association
- Old Hutman's Association (OHA)
David Publicover, D.F., Senior Staff Scientist/Assistant Director of Research Areas of Expertise: Conservation and management of terrestrial ecosystems and biological diversity, including: regional GIS-based landscape analysis to identify and promote areas of high ecological and recreational value as priority areas for land protection; working with conservation partners (other conservation organizations, land trusts, public agencies, and grassroots groups) to design specific conservation proposals in response to emerging opportunities; ecological reserve design and management; sustainable forest management; public lands management; and appropriate windpower siting. Education/Credentials: - B.S., Forestry, University of New Hampshire
- M.S., Botany (Field Naturalist Program), University of Vermont
- D.F., (Doctor of Forestry), Forest Ecology, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Memberships and Affiliations: - Member of numerous public policy technical committees and working groups
Awards: - Natural Resources Council of America 2003 Achievement in Publications award
Speaking Engagements: - "The Future of Wind Power in Maine: Balancing Our Land Conservation and Clean Energy Priorities," Brunswick, ME (2003).
- Society of American Foresters annual meeting, Winston-Salem, NC (2002)
- "Thinking Big: Landscape-Scale Conservation in New Hampshire," Concord, NH (2002)
- Third Forest Ecosystem Information Exchange conference, Orono, ME (2000)
- Maine Biodiversity Forum, Orono, ME (1998)
- Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Providence, RI (1996)
- RENEW ’94 Conference promoting renewable energy future sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Stamford, CT (1994)
Publications:
- Primary author of An Ecological Atlas of the Upper Androscoggin River Watershed.
- Contributing author to:
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- Delineation of Roadless Areas in the Northern Forest of New England Using Satellite Imagery (Appalachian Mountain Club Technical Report 02-1, 2002).
- Forestry for the Future (Northern Forest Alliance, 1999).
- Mountain Treasures: Roadless Areas in the White Mountain National Forest (The Wilderness Society, Appalachian Mountain Club and Conservation Law Foundation, 1999).
- Wildlands: A Conservation Strategy for the Northern Forest (Northern Forest Alliance, 1997).
- Good Forestry in the Granite State: Recommended Voluntary Forest Management Practices for New Hampshire (New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, 1997).
- An Inventory and Ranking of the Key Resources of the Northern Forest Lands of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine (Appalachian Mountain Club, Audubon Society of New Hampshire and Maine Audubon Society, 1993).
- A Methodology for Assessing Conflicts Between Windpower Development and Other Land Uses (Appalachian Mountain Club, in preparation).
- Author of articles in Ecology; Canadian Journal of Forest Research; Journal of Forestry; and Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.
- Supervised ecological inventories of 40,000 acres of public and private conservation land in northern New Hampshire and western Maine.
Georgia Murray, Staff Scientist Areas of Expertise: Air Quality and Watershed Science Education/Credentials: - B.A., Biology, St. Anselm College
- M.S., Earth Sciences/Geochemical Systems, University of New Hampshire
Publications: - 2002. McKane, R. B., Johnson, L.C., Shaver, G.R., Nadelhoffer, K.J., Rastetter, E.B., Fry, B., Giblin, A.E., Kielland, K., Kwiatkowski, B.L., Laundre, J.A., Murray, G. Resource-based niches provide a basis of plant species diversity and dominance in arctic tundra. Nature, 415:68-71.
- 2000. Murray, G. L. D., R. L. Edmonds, and J. L. Marra. Influence of partial harvesting on stream temperatures, chemistry, and turbidity in forests on the western Olympic Peninsula. Northwest Science.
- 1999. Edmonds, R. L., R. D. Blew, J. L. Marra, J. Blew, A. K. Barg, G. Murray and T. B. Thomas. Vegetation patterns, hydrology, and water chemistry in small watersheds in the Hoh River Valley, Olympic National Park. Scientific Monograph NPSD/NRUSGS/NRSM-98/02. USDI, National Park Service.
- 1998. Shaver, G.R., Johnson, L.C., Cades, D.H., Murray, G.L., Laundre, J.A., Rastetter, E.B., Nadelhoffer, K.J., and Giblin, A.E. Biomass accumulation and CO2 flux in three alaskan wet sedge tundras: responses to nutrients, temperature, and light. Ecological Monographs, 68: 75-97.
- 1996. Johnson, L.C., Shaver, G.R., Giblin, A.E., Nadelhoffer, K.J., Rastetter, E.B., Laundre, J.A., and Murray, G.L. Effects of drainage and temperature on carbon balance of Tussock Tundra microcosms. Oecologia, 108: 737-748.
Heather Clish, Deputy Director of Conservation Areas of Expertise: Trail and riverway protection and conservation Education/Credentials: - B.A., Humanistic Studies, McGill University
- M.A., Environmental Policy, Tufts University
Memberships and Affiliations: Board of Directors, American Hiking Society
Kenneth Kimball, Ph.D., Director of Research Areas of Expertise: River ecology; in-stream flow; northeast alpine ecology; endangered species recovery; climate change and eastern mountains; hydroelectric dam relicensing; and windpower siting policy issues. Education and Credentials: - B.S., Ecology, Cornell University
- M.S., Zoology, University of Massachusetts
- Ph.D., Botany, University of New Hampshire
Memberships and Affiliations: - Ecological Society of America
- Rivers Management Society
- Board of Directors, Low Impact Hydro Institute (LIHI)
- NH Rivers Management Advisory Committee
- Hydropower Reform Coalition
Awards: - 1999 River Conservationist of the Year (Perception)
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Regional Director’s Conservation Award 2002
Recent Speaking Engagements: - New England Governors/Eastern Canadian Provinces Symposium: Climate Change in New England and Eastern Canada: Impacts and Adaptation Responses, "Impacts of Climate Change on Northeastern Mountains," Boston, MA (2004)
- Catawba Relicensing Forum 2004, keynote speaker regarding "Land Protection in the Hydroelectric Relicensing Process," Charlotte, SC (2004)
Publications: - Brumback, W., D. Weihrauch and Kimball, K.D. 2004. Propagation and Transplanting of an Endangered Alpine Species, Robbins Cinquefoil, Potentilla robbinsiana. Native Plants Journal 5(2):91-97.
- Kimball, K.D. and Hovey, M. 2002. Protecting Shorelands as Part of the Hydroelectric Relicensing Process. Hydropower Reform Coalition Report.
- Kimball, K.D. and Weihrauch. D.M. 2000, Alpine vegetation communities and the alpine-treeline ecotone boundary in New England as biomonitors for climate change. In: McCool, S.F., et. al. Wilderness science in a time of change conference-Vol.3:Wilderness as a place of Inquiry; 1999 May 23-27; Missoula Mt. Proceed. RMS-P-O-VOL-3. Ogden UT; US Dept. of Agric., Forest Service, Rocky Mtn Research Station.
- Kimball, K.D.1997. Rehabilitating the Deerfield River Watershed (VT and MA) through the FERC hydroelectric power relicensing process - Chapter 12. In J. Williams, M. Dombeck, W. Elmore and C. Wood (eds). Watershed Restoration: Principles and Practices. American Fisheries Society Special Publication.
- Kimball, K.D., Hammond, J., Publicover, D., Kimball, S., Foss, C., Suomala, R., Cline, M., Stockwell, S. and B. Charry. 1993 . An inventory and ranking of the key resources of the Northern Forest lands of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Publication of the Northern Forest Coalition. 142 p.
- J. Doucette and Kimball, K.D. 1991. Robbin's cinquefoil (Potentilla robbinsiana) Recovery Plan, 1st Update. US Fish and Wildlife Service, NE Region 23 pp.
- Kimball, K.D. 1988. Relationship of air pollutants and climate with red spruce vigor on Mt. Washington, NH. Envir. Monitor. and Assessment 12:289
- Levin, S.A., Kelly, J.R., Harwell, M.A. and K.D. Kimball (eds.). 1988. Ecotoxicology: Problems and approaches. Springer-Verlag, 547 pp.
- Kimball, K.D., Jagels, R., Gordon, G.A. and J. Carlisle. 1988. Differences in northern New England coastal and montane cloud/fog water chemistry. Water, Air & Soil Pollution 39:383-393.
- Weathers, K.C.,.. Kimball, K.D. et al. 1988. Chemical composition of cloud water from eight sites in Northern North America. Envir. Science and Technol. 22:1018-1026.
- Kimball, K.D. and M. Keifer. 1988. Climatic comparisons with tree-ring data from montane forests: are the climatic data appropriate? Canad. J. Forest Res. 18:385-390.
- Weathers, K.C., Kimball, K.D., et al. 1986. A regional acid cloud/fog water event in the eastern United States. Nature 319:657-658.
- Kimball, K.D. and S.A. Levin. 1985. The role of ecological sciences in assessing the potential effects of anthropogenic chemicals. Bioscience 35:165-171.
- Levin, S.A. and K.D. Kimball. 1985. New perspectives in ecotoxicology. Environmental Management: 8; 375 - 442.
Larry Garland, Cartographer Areas of Expertise: Mapping & GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Education/Credentials: - B.A., Business Administration, Pacific University
- M.S., Computer Information Systems, Bentley College
Memberships and Affiliations: Board of Directors, Upper Saco Valley Land Trust Awards: - AMC Boston Chapter Service Award, 1989
- New Hampshire and New England four-thousand footers in Winter
- New England 100 highest in Winter
- New Hampshire three-thousand footers in Winter
Speaking Engagements: Various workshops on backcountry navigation; presentations on mapping and map interpretation; slide shows of various overseas travel adventures, including high points of four continents.
Eric Pedersen, Huts Manager
Areas of Expertise: AMC high-mountain hut system and history; Hermit Lake Shelters in Tuckerman Ravine; Search and Rescue operations; wilderness medicine; hiker preparedness; alpine skiing; and general outdoor recreation.
Education and Credentials: - B.A., Geology & Environmental Studies, Hobart College
- Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT)
- AMC Search and Rescue Coordinator
Memberships and Affiliations: - Old Hutman's Association (OH)
- White Mountain Search and Rescue Working Group, Chair
- Bartlett-Jackson Ambulance
Pam Hess, Director of Education Programs Areas of Expertise: Outdoor leadership; education and skills (K-12, urban youth programs); No Child Left Inside campaign (getting outdoors with families, health and educational benefits of outdoor play for kids, state and local initiatives in the Northeast), volunteerism, and outdoor recreation trends. Education/Credentials: - B.S., Wildlife Biology, University of Vermont
- M.S., Natural Resources in Environmental Education, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
- Formerly with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Deputy Project leader at several National Wildlife Refuges
Susan Arnold, Director of Conservation Areas of Expertise: AMC conservation; trails and research programs; federal appropriations; and conservation policy and strategy. Education/Credentials: - B.A., English, Yale University
- Former Director of Policy for Governor Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
- Former Political Director for NARAL-NH, a state affiliate of the national pro-choice organization
- Former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator
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