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Piping Plover <br />ANNE HECHT <br />Ms. Hecht is an Endangered Species Biologist, and Endangered Species Coordinator for Region 5 of the <br />U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in Hadley, Massachusetts. She was the team leader of the Atlantic Coast \� <br />Piping Plover Recovery Team, and the 1996 Revised Recovery Plan. Ms. Hecht is an expert on the \�'\ <br />Atlantic Coast population of piping plovers, and piping plovers in general, and the Endangered Species <br />Act. Ms. Hecht can be reached at 978 - 443 -4325, or Anne_Hecht @fws.gov. <br />DR. JAMES FRASER <br />Dr. Fraser is a Professor of Wildlife at Virginia Tech where his interests are conservation biology <br />endangered species management. Dr. Fraser and many of his graduate students have, and are currently <br />studying the piping plover. His piping plover studies are well rounded and have included population, fit. <br />breeding, nesting, brood fora ig_niz and survival, and diets. Dr. Fraser earned his B.S. at the University of Q) <br />Idaho in 1974, M.S. at the University of Minnesota in 1978, and his Ph.D. at the university of Minnesota in <br />1981. Dr. Fraser can be reached at Virginia Tech. <br />DR. SUSAN HAIG <br />Dr. Haie is a Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, where her <br />specialties are conservation genetics and avian behavioral ecology. Dr. Haig earned her B.S. in 1979 from <br />Northland College, Ashland, WI, and her Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, @- <br />ND. Dr. Haig is an expert on shorebird ecology, and the piping plover in particular, and has authored V <br />numerous papers in peer reviewed professional journals. Courses topics at the Oregon State University <br />taught by her include genetics and demography of small populations, establishing species recoverX <br />objectives, inbreeding and small populations. Dr. Haig can be contacted at 541- 758 -7761, <br />susan haig_@usgs.gov or at FRESC /BRD, USGS, 3200 SW Jefferson Wagon State University, <br />Corvallis, OR, 97331. <br />DR. MARK RYAN <br />Dr. Ryan is a conservation biologist, and his research interests include endangered species avian ecology y` <br />and conservation of birds in wetland and grassland ecosystems. Dr. Ryan has published numerous papers r� <br />in peer reviewed professional journals on shorebirds and piping plover in particular. He and his graduate V <br />students have conducted comprehensive studies and modeling of factors limiting, piping plover populations <br />in North America. Dr. Ryan received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1982, and is an Associate <br />Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He can be reached at 573- 882 -9425 or <br />Ryaril\4R@niissouri.edu. <br />16 <br />