Linda Joyce
Quantitative Ecology, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO 80526, ljoyce@fs.fed.us

The area of expertise of Linda A. Joyce, PhD is quantitative ecology. Her recent research has focused on quantifying the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, wildlife habitat, and the socio-economic implications of climate changes on the forestry sector. She is also working with other scientists on developing adaptation options for natural resource managers and planners to climate change. As the Climate Change Specialist for the Assessment (RPA) process in the Forest Service, she identifies and coordinates the analysis of potential effects of global climate change on the condition of renewable resources on the forests and rangelands of the United States. She contributed to International Panel on Climate Change reports; served as a member of the Carbon Cycle Scientific Committee, the National Institute for Global Environmental Change, and the NEON Design Consortium. She was a member of the U.S. National Assessment Synthesis Team that completed an assessment of the impacts of climate change on the United States. As lead author, she recently completed the National Forests chapter in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Report 4.4 ‘Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources.’

Dave Gustafson

Dave Gustafson is a Senior Fellow at Monsanto Company, which he first joined in 1985. His academic training was at Stanford University and the University of Washington in Seattle, where he received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in chemical engineering. After graduating, he entered the crop protection industry for 25 years. The initial focus of his research was the development of new computer models for predicting the environmental behavior of crop chemicals, especially water quality issues. Among the models he developed for this purpose is the GUS- Index, which is now used by regulatory agencies worldwide to determine the potential of pesticides to contaminate ground water supplies. More recently, Dave has applied his modeling expertise to issues involving pollen-mediated gene flow and the population genetics of resistance in both insects and weeds. In early 2007, Dave served as an inaugural member and theme lead for the Monsanto Fellows Climate Change Panel, which reported back to the company on the degree of scientific certainty in global climate modeling, and how it is likely to impact agriculture around the world. He now serves on various Monsanto teams looking at the new imperatives and constraints placed on the company by man- made global warming.

Pete Nowak

Pete Nowak received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota’s College of Agriculture in 1977. He served as both an assistant and associate professor at Iowa State University before joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in 1985. At UW-Madison he holds multiple appointments as a Soil and Water Conservation Specialist in the Environmental Resources Center and Research Professor and Chair of Outreach in the Nelson Institute. He also served as Chair of the Wisconsin Buffer Initiative for the last three years. Pete’s career has focused on measuring and explaining the adoption and diffusion of agricultural technologies, especially those with natural resource management implications. More recently he has focused on examining the application of spatial analytical techniques and statistics to critical issues in resource management.

His work has been published in a variety of journals and books. He has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Editorial Board of the Journal of Precision Agriculture and on the Foundation for Environmental Agricultural Education. In the recent past he has worked with the National Academy of Science’s Board on Agriculture, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and a National Blue Ribbon Panel examining the USDA Conservation Effectiveness Assessment Project. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Soil and Water Conservation Society.