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Mr. Michael A. Drain, P.E. — Mr. Drain is a Civil Engineering Supervisor for The Central Nebraska Public
<br />Power and Irrigation District, 415 Lincoln Street, PO Box 740, Holdrege, NE 68949. He received his BS in
<br />Civil Engineering at the University of Nebraska in 1993 and an MS in Civil Engineering at the University of
<br />Nebraska in 1995. He's worked at CNPPID since 1995. His expertise is in hydraulics, hydrology,
<br />geomorphology, and river mechanics, water resources planning and management, operations of major
<br />surface water projects along central Platte River. [308- 995 -8601] mdrain(aD-cnppid.com
<br />VEGETATION / HABITAT
<br />Mr. W. Carter Johnson, Ph.D. — Dr. Johnson is a Professor of Ecology at South Dakota State University
<br />in Brookings. He received a B.S. in Biology from Augustana College (Sioux Falls) in 1968 and a Ph.D. in
<br />Botany (Plant Ecology) from North Dakota State University in 1971. Carter began his professional career
<br />as Research Associate and Research Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1971 -77), followed
<br />by 12 years in the Department of Biology at Virginia Tech. In 1989 he became Head of the Department of
<br />Horticulture, Forestry, Landscape, and Parks at South Dakota State University, a position held until 1995.
<br />His research interests include river regulation and riparian forest ecology, climate change and prairie
<br />wetlands, seed dispersal in fragmented landscapes, and paleoecology (climate reconstruction using tree
<br />rings; Holocene seed dispersal and plant migration). His research program is strongly multi - disciplinary
<br />and inter - institutional. He was the recipient of the William S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of
<br />America in 1996 and the Best Paper Award from the International Association of Landscape Ecology in
<br />1995 for his 1994 Ecological Monograph, "Woodland Expansion in the Platte River, Nebraska: Patterns
<br />and Causes." He is a life member of the Ecological Society of America and serves on the editorial boards
<br />for Landscape Ecology and Wetlands and on the National Research Council's Committee on the Missouri
<br />River Ecosystem. He has been certified as a Senior Ecologist by ESA since 1988.
<br />Carter Johnson sdstate.edu
<br />Mr. Paul Tebbel — Mr. Tebbel has managed the Lillian Annette Rowe Sanctuary since 1995. Rowe
<br />Sanctuary located on the Platte River south of Gibbon NE, is managed for migratory waterfowl, shorebirds
<br />and cranes. Management activities have focused on river channel, wet meadow /prairie restoration.
<br />National Audubon Society, Route 2, Box 146, Gibbon NE 68840 -9802. [308- 468 -5282] roweQnctc.net
<br />AVIAN TARGET SPECIES
<br />Mr. James Jenniges — Mr. Jenniges has 12 years experience in monitoring least tern and piping plover
<br />nesting, sandhill crane habitat use and review of whooping crane habitat models. Responsible for
<br />development and management of 6 tern and plover nesting sites and 2, 600 acres of Platte River riparian
<br />areas as habitat for whooping cranes. Nebraska Public Power District, Box 2170, Kearney NE, 68848.
<br />[308- 236 -2293] iiienni(a�nppd.com
<br />Mr. Mark Peyton — Mr. Peyton has 10+ years experience on Platte River monitoring and research on
<br />least terns, piping plovers, whooping cranes, American burying beetles, and bald eagles. A number of
<br />published papers on these topics as well as numerous reports to the USFWS. Central Nebraska Public
<br />Power & Irrigation District, Box 188, Gothenburg, NE 69138. [308- 537 -3582] mpevton(@,cnppid.com
<br />Ms. Amy Richert, Ph.D. — Dr. Richert experience is in GIS analysis of whooping crane use sites in
<br />Nebraska. Comprehensive review of whooping crane observational data. University of Nebraska - Lincoln,
<br />424 Morrill Hall, Lincoln, NE. Email: arichert(d-)unlserve.unl.edu
<br />Mr. William C. Scharf, Ph.D. — Dr. Scharf is retired from teaching at Northwestern Michigan College, was
<br />Associate Director of the University of Nebraska Cedar Point Biological Station and Director of the
<br />Whitefish Point Bird Observatory. Dr. Scharf has extensive experience with avian ecology in Platte River
<br />riparian areas. 760 Kingston Court Traverse City, MI 49684. [231- 941 -8210] wscharf(a)traverse.com
<br />PALLID STURGEON
<br />Mr. Douglas Latka — Mr. Latka is with the Army Corp of Engineers in Omaha NE. Has worked
<br />extensively on many Missouri River issues including pallid sturgeon. Doug received his Masters Degree
<br />at Iowa State University. Doug's master thesis focused on sturgeon use of the Missouri River in the
<br />vicinity of the Platte River. [402- 697 -2477] Doug. C. Latka(a)-nwd02. usace.army. m il
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